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elected by the people is being sworn in to office. just before noon at the capitol, barack obama will take the oath for his second term as president. this is a ceremonial swearing-in because the constitution requires the president to be sworn in on january 20th, and this year the 20th fell on sunday. so the president took the official oath in private yesterday in the blue room at the white house. the oath administered by the chief justice john roberts, jr. the public swearing-in and all the pomp and circumstance that go with it were put off until today and what a day it is. the temperature right now is in the high 30s. the sky is clear, a brilliant winter's day in the nation's capital. people are pouring into the national mall to witness a day of history. the first family began the day by attending services at st. john's church. that's right across the street from the white house. that's a long-standing tradition
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for presidents on inauguration day. joining me now in our cbs coverage is bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of ""face the nation."" bob, what are you expecting to see? >> well, it's going to be an important day for the nation, but i must say, you know, the fiscal cliff negotiations, the slaughter of those children in connecticut made it difficult for washington to be festive this time around. it's also a very unusual atmosphere because of this gridlock. i mean, you're not hearing people talk about hope and renewal this time around, but is the government broken? the whole system. and what can we do to fix it? people want washington and its politicians to work together. the politicians as yet have not been a i believe to figure out how to do that. but, you know, inaugural speeches can sometimes change the mood. you heard fdr, the only thing we have to fear. i remember when gerald ford said our long national nightmare is over.
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jack kennedy, ask not what you can do for your country. difference in how the nation feels about itself and about what's going on. i would say this. if there was a time when this country needed to hear a good speech and wanted to hear a good one, i think this would be the time. so let's hope we get a good one. >> of course, there was lincoln's second inaugural where he talked about the wounds of the nation. we know that the president has been working on this president for weeks and major garrett, our chief white house correspondent, is at the white house this morning with a little bit of insight on what we might hear today. >> well, good morning, scott. those closest to the president tell us this speech is in the moment and it's going to talk, they hope, credibly, believably about responsibilities ahead. and the prospect for not only bipartisan compromise, and
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things that didn't seem achievable four years ago. it might be worth reminding us ourselves how the president ended first inaugural address four years ago. scott, the president talked about america being in the midst of a winter of our hardship and he urged the nation to brave icy currents and to endure whatever storms may come. there was a sense of forboding then, a sense of crisis, both economic and otherwise, that white house advisers that he feels is no longer as present now as it was then. so that's part of the optimistic note he'll say, we have achieved things. we have more work to do, but it can be done together. that will be the central core and theme of this speech i'm told. and the president believes that president which could not have been delivered four years ago has a chance to resonate today. >> major, it bears noting that when the president delivered the winter of our hardship speech, the unemployment was 7.8%. the unemployment rate is 7.8%. so it's still a great deal of work to be done on the economy and a great many other things.
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nora o'donnell, the co-anchor of "cbs this morning" is down on the national mall and she has insight on what the president is looking to in a second term. >> that's right. on a day like this when most americans have expressed their frustration with washington, political leaders, this is day that we see hundreds of thousands of americans turn out to witness this piece of history. every second-term president since dwight eisenhower has had to deal with an opposition party in congress. that's nothing new that president obama is facing in this second term. but he's going to try and capture i think some of the magic of bipartisanship on a day like today. trying to put it in a bottle. because he really has a very ambitious agenda for his second term. we have heard him talk about it. gun safety, immigration reform. deficit reduction and those looming spending cuts that are a part of the sequestration. so that's lot before the president. but as major has noted this is a speech today that's not about specifics, but setting the tone
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and trying in some ways to push the reset button. >> thank you very much. the president and the first family are back at the white house this morning, but they started their day right across the street from the white house at st. john's episcopal church where our wyatt andrews is standing by this morning. >> scott, good morning. every president since franklin roosevelt, that's 80 years, has begun inauguration day here at st. john's church. the president arrived early this morning with the first lady, daughters malia and sasha, and the family of vice president biden. they came to a 50-minute prayer service. attended also by about 600 members of the parish and congregation. they also got some news when they heard that their reverend will be giving the benediction.
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the previous one had withdrawn after he gave an anti-gay sermon 20 years ago. he began today worshipping at the church known as the church of presidents. >> wyatt, thank you very much. also at the white house today, david axelrod is joining us this morning. the former city hall bureau chief of "the chicago tribune," but perhaps better known to everyone these days as the chief strategist and architect of the president's victory in 2008 and his most recent re-election as well. david, thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> great to be with you, scott. >> as we noted earlier, the unemployment rate on inauguration day in 2009 was 7.8 and it's 7.8% today. the president has a lot of work cut out for him. what do you think we will see from the president with regard to the economy going forward in the second term?
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>> well, first of all, i think it's worth noting it was 7.8% on the day he took office and it went up to 10.2% when the full brunt of the recession hit. and we have to build on it, not just to get the unemployment rate down, scott, but to make sure that people who work hard can get ahead. that they have a sense that their kids can do better. we have to not only take care of our fiscal problems but also make some investments in education and research and development, innovation. to get control of the energy future. all of that will be a part of the president's vision for the next four years. >> you know, bob schieffer mentioned earlier this morning the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, the president is proposing a number of changes to the gun laws in this country. how much a part of the president's resolve will that be in the months coming? >> well, the thing -- the president always said that, you
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know, you have to do many things at once when you're president, and that's a very important thing. we can't keep replicating these tragedies and it's not just the big tragedies, but the small, smaller strategy dtragedies than the streets every day. so he's determined to move forward on this package of laws. they're not the only things we need to do. some of the things have less to do with government and more to do with what we -- what we do in our home. what our children play and in terms of video games and what they watch. but certainly we need to do something about guns. we are hopeful that we're at a moment when we can pass the impasse that we have seen in the past and really move forward on it. >> hey, david, bob schieffer here. >> hey, bob. >> in normal times, probably we wouldn't report this, but in these fractured times this just in as they say. i'm told that speaker boehner, eric cantor, the number two republican in the house, and
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mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, are at the white house right now having coffee with the president. do you think that there really is a chance that there can be some sort of a get together, bipartisan effort, something we haven't seen thus far? >> you know, not on everything, bob, but on some things for sure. not just because people are becoming enlightened, but because of their self-interest. if you look at your own polling and the polling that we have seen in the last few days, the republican party is trading at record lows. the congress at almost record lows. the strategy of obstruction has not been worked well for the republican party. that's why i think you saw them retreat from the plan to push this debt ceiling issue immediately upon returning to work. so i think that there's a prospect for getting some things done. certainly on issues like immigration reform. there's a powerful impetus for
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there to be progress. i think we can make some. >> david, thank you very much. you're going to be leaving the president's side and starting an institute of politics at the university of chicago and we wish you all the luck in the world. >> you guys, i need you out there. >> nancy cordis is there as a number of the dignitaries begin to take their seats. what are you seeing? >> scott, there are 1,600 seats that have been set up on the west front terrace of the capitol. people who will be surrounding the president as he takes the oath of office. we are still awaiting the announcement of the dignitaries who will come out in groups. first, the nation's diplomatic core, the governor, then the cabinet, the joint chief of staff, and supreme court.
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and two former presidents, bill clinton and president carter who will both be in attendance today. we won't see the other two living presidents george h.w. bush who was just released from the hospital and is who is now recovering, and george w. bush who sends his regrets. >> so as it happens because of the illness of the elder mr. bush, there will be only democratic presidents in attendance today. very, very unusual circumstance. the headline of the hour, the news broke moments ago by bob schieffer is that the republican leadership at this moment is in the white house having coffee with the president. perhaps a hopeful sign that agreements might come with the new year. here's what's coming up the rest of this inauguration day. at 10:40, the president and mrs. obama leave the white house for the capital. the inaugural ceremonies begin at 11:30 and include the ceremonial swearing-in of vice
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president biden. then at 11:55, president obama will be sworn in by chief justice john roberts. and at noon, the president will deliver his inaugural address. that will be followed by lunch at the capital. then around 2:30, the president leads a procession back to the white house where he and the first lady will watch the inaugural parade along pennsylvania avenue. down there among the people on the national mall is our national correspondent byron pitts. what do you see? >> good morning. 400,000 people were lucky enough to get tickets. they were members of the white house or the congress. about 30,000 people will sit closest to the podium. here in the same area four years ago. back then there was a great deal talk of race and the historical importance of the moment. i remember watching it, men and women wept as then
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president-elect obama took the oath of office. today, far less talk about race, mostly about the nation's business. but scott, there is a sense of joy in the air today, on this most american of days. scott? >> byron, thank you very much. cbs news coverage of the president's second inauguration will continue live from washington in just a moment. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪
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driveways of your constituents when it snows and you have saved a woman from a burning house. that's good work. >> i appreciate that. the city as a whole is coming together to do incredible things. >> what can the president do for cities as he goes into the second term? >> first of all, i have to say the grandeur of this day is incredible. i talked to my mom, she was here in 1964, organizing for the watch on washington. she can't believe that now there's a monument to martin luther king on the mall. and that an african-american president is being -- is being elected and for her, she said the most humble tone, these were dreams that were dangerous to even articulate when i was growing up and now i'm seeing america in that way. this is the beauty of this day. you have the president being inaugurated at a time that coincides with martin luther king's birthday. and it's a good reminder that as tough as things seem, bob, as difficult and challenging of a moment we should in american
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welcome back to inauguration day 2013. i'm scott pelley. cbs news joined in our anchor booth by bob schieffer and now douglas brinkley. one of this nation's foremost presidential historians, a professor of history at rice university and the author of a recent biography of walter cronkite. thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> you got a call from the white house. the president wanted to see you to talk about his second inaugural address. you and some of your colleagues in the world of history. you can't tell us exactly what happened in that meeting because of course it was off the record. you wanted to give private advice to the president, but give us a sense of what it was like in the room and the things that the president might have been interested in. >> well, early on in his first term, he had a cabal of presidential historians, doris
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kearns goodwin and myself and others and this last one where he was very relaxed. you hear people talk about the gridlock in washington. this is a president that's also relieved. i mean, 2012 was a tough election. he pulled -- even after the denver debate problem, so he seemed very relaxed, very interested in abraham lincoln. no big surprise. any time he gets presidential historians together he loves to talk about lincoln. he is a scholar of lincoln. he reads everything he can on him and he think the second inaugural of lincoln is one of the great documents over time. it's been quoted over time, with malice towards none speech. the fact that we'll have a lincoln bible there today and it's the 150th of the emancipation proclamation is something he's interested in. >> we heard he's frustrated over washington right now. we hear that republicans say he doesn't like us.
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and did you find him frustrated? did you find him eager? how would you find his state of mind? >> very eager to move forward and not fall into this second curse, you know, of a second term. i mean, he's got to -- recognizes in history, in second terms he recognizes people did great thing. bill clinton would not be a great bill clinton if he hadn't done the budget surplus at that term. and diplomacy for reagan's term. and maybe he'll do something in a climate change. something you could not have touched in the first term. he tried a few times. but i think that's something that will come up in the second term, how do we grapple with the climate problem? >> doug brinkley, thank you very much. you'll give us historical
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context and perspective on this remarkable day in history. we'll look forward to talking to you in a little bit. chip reid is down there on the national mall. what are you seeing down there? >> well, scott, you can see behind me the crowd stretches from 9th street to the u.s. capitol. this is a third of the size of the crowd of four years ago. that crowd 1.8 million people was by far the biggest crowd in the history of presidential inaugurations. in fact, it was the biggest crowd for anything on the mall in american history. this crowd is actually probably going to be the fourth largest in history for inaugurations. but compared to that one, it's quite small. one thing we have seen among this crowd quite a bit is families with young children. we talked to one family from georgia. four years ago they brought their 2-year-old son here to see president obama's first inauguration. this time, they brought that son who is now 6 and their two twins who are 6 months old to book end
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the obama inaugurations. they want their children to see for the rest of their lives that they were here. scott? >> chip, thank you very much. we are looking at various washington dignitaries coming in to the capitol and taking their seats, waiting for the inauguration of the president, which will be coming up at about 11:55 eastern time. cbs news coverage of the inauguration of president barack obama will continue in a moment. this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news morning update. good morning it's 7:28 i'm michelle griego.
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>> and i'm frank mallicoat with a check of your headlines from cbs 5. the 49ers are going to the super bowl. >> y they are but it wasn't easy. tough start but a nice finish for the 9ers. they get their first super bowl berth in 18 years after a come from behind victory yesterday over the atlanta falcons. caltrains annual freedom train honoring dr. martin luther king junior leaves san jose two hours from now. the trip commemorates the march from selma to montgomery in 1965. tickets are $10 per person. and a local surfer is this year's winner at mavericks, peter mel beat out two dozen of the world's best. about 30,000 people on hand to watch. >> you completing yesterday. >> no, but i was watching. it's a lot safer from the shore. great weather not only this weekend, but today it's looking good. you begin to see the clouds
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encroaching closer to the coastline and will push on shore in the middle of the week. clear over the bay. temperatures on the cold side, 20s and 30s inland. by the afternoon we'll be enjoying hazy sunshine all the way to the coastline in the 60s. rain to the mildest week. and a -- middle of the week. and northbound 880 approaching mallory, we have an accident there just cleared to the right shoulder. and still a little slow there. the san mateo bridge where everything is moving fine in both directions and the bay bridge, no metering lights this morning because of the holiday. that's traffic back to you guys. happy martin luther king everyone. >> and we return you now to special cbs inauguration coverage. our next newscast is at 5:00 p.m.
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cbs coverage of the presidential inauguration continues. here again is scott pelley. >> welcome back to washington on this glorious inauguration day. i'm joined by bob schieffer and former secretary of state colin powell, from the bush administration. also former chairman of the joint chief of staff. and perhaps a man who has the busiest retirement i have seen. you put out another new book "it worked for me, lessons in leadership." congratulations on that. >> thank you very much. it's a book i'm proud of. 44 anecdotes of what worked for me. may work for you, may not. take a look. >> now, few people have as much experience as you have. how is a second term different than a first? >> well, you're building on a record and i think the president has a good record to build on. he has fixed the financial system or stabilized it. the economy is starting to improve. housing is up. automobile production is up.
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stock market has doubled. but there's a lot more to be done. gun control, climate control, immigration policy, and so i'm glad he was re-elected so he can continue that work and we don't sort of start from zero again. i hope today in his inauguration address he will speak to the americans and give us a vision. and i think he'll do that. i think he understands the importance of a second inaugural address. >> second terms are ones in which everyone in the administration is in a hurry. it's not really four more years. >> it's two more years. two more years and then the campaign starts again. and everyone will reposition themselves. i think the president understands this. >> so in your book you talk about what worked for you. what would you advise the president to do from a practical standpoint? what would you pick out as the most important thing he needs to do now and how would you advise him to go about it? >> the economy and the fiscal situation. the economy is something that will improve over time, i think, and continue to improve.
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but i'm deeply troubled about the difficulty we're having in the national debt negotiations. the fiscal cliff. the sequestration, continuing resolution. these people can't really plan until they have a better understanding. congress and members of the business community can't plan until these issues are behind us. i was kind of pleased to see that the republicans offered a new idea with the debt ceiling a few days ago. that's good. in the last week or so we have seen some changes on the republican side on immigration. a more -- more of an understanding for the need for an immigration policy. the country is becoming more and more diverse and minority. this is good. only in the united states could we handle this kind of diversity and we should be proud of it and we should educate the young people and give those who are not here under legal status an opportunity to gain some kind of legal status. that's what the legal
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immigration should be all about. and also, climate and gun control and all the other things that are before him. >> how did he get washington off the dime here? what's the first thing? >> one of the things that has gotten so much attention, he doesn't get along with come, doesn't spend enough time with them. i know he's thinking about that. i hope he does reach out more than he has in the first four years and i hope congress is ready to reciprocate. they can't defeat him in the election anymore. today is the day we come together as a nation and dedicate ourselves to doing the things that people want. what i have been saying to everybody, our founding fathers used to argue like the devil. i mean, they were really at each other. but at the end, they compromised to create a nation, to create a constitution. and in the spirit of arguing, feeling strongly to find a consensus that has to be the spirit of the second administration. second term.
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>> foreign policy is your expertise. three weeks ago we would not have thought of africa being a threat to americans. what concerns you about that situation? what can the president do about going forward? >> i think if we're talking about mali and places around mali, the president should support those who are going to lead the french. the french have a unique relationship and interest in mali. i think we should support them to the extent we can. they're one of our nato allies and they have been a friend of ours. but we have to keep our eye on the places. i don't think it will require american soldiers on the ground, but we have to realize that al qaeda has been badly diminished. let's not overlook the success we have had. but it doesn't mean it's gone away. and it doesn't mean that every al qaeda cell is getting ready to attack the united states of america. they're doing other things in the region as well. so be vigilant. help our friends. i don't think there's a need for a commitment of american troops. >> mr. secretary, thank you so much for being with us. as we watch this live shot of the entrance to the west wing of
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the white house where we're expecting the president and the first lady to come out any moment now to go to the limousine and take the trip of 1.6 miles to the capital for his second inauguration. mr. secretary, thank you for your time. >> thank you. john dickerson, our cbs 23450us -- news political director is down there on the national mall. and john, what are you expecting as we await the president's departure from the white house? sgll well, scott, in talking to someone close to president obama about this speech, they started -- their description of it is well, he won't say that he won, but when you start a description that way, although it will be about coming together and what a divided washington can do on these big problems, inside this speech there will be an argument for the values he fought for during the campaign. this is not a speech that's
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specific, paired with the save the union. the specifics will be in that. this is about themes. but in it, the president will be making a case for what he won. this is part of his new ton in the second part of his -- his second administration which is a more aggressive tone. and in dealing with congress one final note. it's not so much that he doesn't think schmoozing will work because they're not nice people. he just thinks that a deal made with republicans in congress in the house specifically will not get through the house. and that he has to be more aggressive because only aggression will get deals made. >> john, thank you very much. this is a live shot of the entrance to the west wing of the white house where we're expecting to see the president and the first lady very shortly. major garrett is just steps away on the north lawn of the white house. major? >> scott, moments like this are full of solemnity, precision and grandeur.
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it's built around the inauguration, and i can tell you that senior staff of the president and those who work most closely with him on the campaign have been waiting for the president to step out. he's going to begin the capital variation of the inaugural festivities. before he comes out, the president spent time enjoying a ceremonial and practical confrontation if you will or a session with the realities of divided government. all the congressional leadership, republican and democrat, were here for coffee before the president heads to the capitol. he talked about ending recriminations, and worn out dogmas and republicans believed when they gained back control of the house of representatives, not every grievance they said was petty. they said the representation of the republican constituents ought to matter. some of the grievances that occurred afterwards were long and bitter and full of recriminations. the inaugural address i'm told
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is meant to reflect on that, talk about possibilities in the future. bipartisan and otherwise. but before coming out, he spent some time with the congressional leadership over coffee. we were told that it was a calm, happy and joyous affair. because on a day like today, lawmakers come together to support their re-elected president and await his arrival. >> thank you very much. of course, very often when we are watching this scene in american history, the president and the first lady walk out of this door with the president-elect and the first lady to be, those times when there's a transition from one president to the next. but today, of course, it will just be president obama and first lady michelle obama as they head to the presidential limousine. bob schieffer, there have been a number of times in american
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history when the defeated president or the departing president and the president-elect have ridden together in a car or a carriage to the capitol. and sometimes that hasn't gone so well. >> one of the most awkward and worst moments. truman and eisenhower, they didn't like each other at all. they hardly spoke in the car. but you can just imagine having to get into the car with the guy who just beat you. and there's nobody that could find that very pleasant. it mean, it brings new meaning to the childhood phrase, are we there yet? here they come. >> and of course, mrs. obama stepping into the limousine. since we leave no stone unturned here at cbs she was wearing a thom browne coat and dress we are told.
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fabric was based on the style of a man's silk tie. we'll be seeing a lot more of that. i have people who hand me cards, bob. we have very, very smart people here at cbs news whose job is it to make me look smart. that's how we know that. we'll be expecting the president here shortly. i don't believe we have seen the vice president yet either. of course the marine guard standing there at the door as always. nora o'donnell our colleague and host of "cbs this morning" is down there at the mall. >> you described her clothing choices and sasha and malia, wearing purple. not red or blue, but purple. now we see the vice president, joe biden, as he joins the president there in the limousine to take this ride up to capitol hill. >> and the president's limousine
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standing by. this is the driveway right there in front of the west wing. the entrance to the west wing. if you go through this door and make a right, you'll find your way to the president's office and the press room and the offices of the national security council and all the other offices of the west wing. as bob schieffer first reported earlier this morning, the president has been meeting with the congressional leadership. the republican leadership in particular. he's been having coffee with them after the prayer service the president attended earlier this morning. quite a gesture as he approaches the beginning of his second term. in hopes of more cooperation. and here is the president now with charles schumer, the senior senator of new york. >> mr. schumer i believe is in charge of the congressional committee that puts the inauguration on. he'll be speaking before the
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president takes the oath this morning. of course, there will be no lack of conversation on this trip to the capitol. of course you'll have the vice president there. he can always be counted on to -- if there's a gap in the conversation, he'll fill it. >> it will be something to see whether between the vice president and senator schumer the president can get a word in edgewise on this short trip up. it's about 1.6 miles. i'm reminded that abraham lincoln once said about this trip, he said i have always been told that i'm going to hell, but i didn't realize it was two miles up the road with a dome on top of it. i'm sure all presidents feel that way from time to time. the president's armored limousine now moving past the entrance to the west wing and will soon be on its way out of the white house grounds and up pennsylvania avenue.
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senator schumer who is riding with the president will be essentially the master of ceremonies today at the inauguration event on the west front of the capitol. senat senator schumer is the chairman of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies so he'll be giving the very speech, a very brief speech today, and then as i said the master of ceremonies for all of the rest. there you saw the press van in front of the president's limousine which is sending us this beautiful live picture of the limousine. major garrett just saw the president drive by his location. major? >> yes, scott, i don't know if you can pick it up on the microphones but there's a huge roar from those in the bleachers just outside the fence. on the north side of the white house, as the presidential limousine began to emerge on to
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pennsylvania avenue for that very short drive up to capitol hill. i think we had a picture briefly of the new license plates on the presidential limousine. they have what is here referred to as the taxation without representation license plates. that's about home rule and eventually statehood here in the district of columbia. those are brand new on the president's limousine. he did not have them for if first -- for the first four years of his presidency, but in solidarity with the residents of district of columbia, he had them put on. this a new thing for the president on this inauguration day. they're making their public debut as the president makes his way up pennsylvania avenue to the capitol. scott? >> and just ahead on this motorcade route is cbs news correspondent and our state department correspondent margaret brennan. what do you see from your vantage point? >> well, the president is passing by at any moment, scott.
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this is freedom plaza. this is where martin luther king penned his i have a dream speech. a bit of poetic resonance today. you can see the police escort is starting to drive by right now. along this route, behind the police, you will see u.s. marines lining the parade route. they are facing away from the crowd. they're not carrying any arms. they're not here for law enforcement. they are purely here to salute the commander in chief as he passes by. there are more than 1,000 members of the military here today. all four sectors and the coast guard here to salute the president because this is considered a ceremonial change of command for the commander in chief coming in. and as you can see the motorcade just now passing by here at freedom plaza. and the crowd is erupting, they are waving to the president as he passes by.
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you can see some of the bleachers are still somewhat empty. getting filled up. people really want to be here and see the president walk out of that car on his return after the swearing-in. this is one of the few places along the parade route where you can see a straight shot through to the u.s. capitol building here. >> margaret, thank you very much. as you can see no problem with the traffic for the president. he seems to be getting up pennsylvania avenue with no concern of traffic. we want to be sure to catch the president as he arrives at the capitol which will be in a couple of minutes. so we will break away for just a moment as our cbs news coverage of the inauguration of barack obama continues in just a moment. this portion of cbs news inauguration coverage is
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approaching the capitol now. there we see the outgoing treasury secretary tim geithner, as a number of dignitaries are now arriving at the capitol. there is the president's limousine now. the president left the white house with the first lady just a few moments ago. the vice president is in the car with him. and the senior senator of new york, charles schumer, who is also essentially the master of ceremonies at today's inaugural events at the capitol. here's the car now approaching the capitol. our jan crawford is inside the capitol now, as a number of people are beginning to arrive. jan, what do you see there? >> well, scott, a few moments ago almost all of it seemed like the united states senate just walked by here to file outside and take their seats. they're on the west front to await the ceremonies that of course will be coming up. then after the president gives
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his inaugural address he will come in here, he'll come through the rotunda, walk by that bust of dr. martin luther king, jr., and then into statuary hall for a tradition that's the most exclusive lunch you can imagine. all of the nation's leaders, the president, the vice president, congressional leaders, supreme court justices, their spouses, they will all gather for a lunch to put politics aside for at least a brief moment. >> thank you very much, jan. as we watch the president's motorcade approaching the capitol, let me give you a little bit of an advanced look on what you're seeing as the inauguration ceremonies proceed. as we mentioned, senator charles schumer of new york will be the master of ceremonies. he will have a short speech and then he will be introducing myrlie evers-williams, a former chair of the naacp and the widow
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of medgar evers. the naacp field secretary who was gunned down in 1963. one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. myrlie evers-williams will be giving the invocation at the beginning of the ceremonies and then we will see justice sonia sotomayor who is one of the newer associate justices on the supreme court. she will be delivering the oath of office to the vice president. this is beyonce coming in now and we will be hearing from her. there are several musical performances today. after the vice president is sworn in, james taylor will be singing "america the beautiful." then following that, john roberts, jr., the chief justice of the united states will administer the oath of office to the president. we just saw 88-year-old jimmy carter arriving on the scene. former presidents are almost always in attendance at these
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events, but today, george herbert walker bush and his son, george w. bush are not in attendance. the elder mr. bush has recently been released from a month-long stay in the hospital due to a respiratory ailment and so both bush families announced that they would not be able to attend because of the poor health of the elder george bush. the president after taking the oath of office will deliver his second inaugural address. following that, kelly clarkson will be singing "my country 'tis of thee." and these are the supreme court justices being led in, led by chief justice of the united states john roberts jr. who delivered the oath in 2009.
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here is the first lady as she is coming in to the capitol. as we mentioned earlier, she's wearig a dress and a coat by the american designer thom browne. navy blue we are told. there's justice sotomayor. nominated to the supreme court by president obama. she will deliver the oath of office to the vice president. justice elena kagan following her. the nine justices of the supreme court, filing in to take their seats. jan, you are inside the capitol, as we see the vice president coming in. tell us what we're seeing now. >> well, scott, right now we are getting this -- the supreme court justices walking out. i want to make the point that one of the things that -- and we
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talk about the president's term and what he can accomplish in his next term in office. the supreme court is something that could have an enormous impact on this country because of course that can be a president's most lasting legacy. those justices will remain on that court long after the president has left town. he's already had a few pointed out two nomination, justices sotomayor and kagan. most believe he'll get one more. maybe two. if a conservative judge retires that court so closely 5-4 with conservatives in the balance, he could change the direction to a more liberal direction. >> there are four justices who are in their 70's. and ruth baden ginsburg will be 80 in a few weeks. here is the president now as he enters the capitol. let's watch for just a moment. >> thank you.
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>> greeting the leadership of the house and the senate as he came in. nancy cordes is on the west front of the capitol. which you see before you now. how are things looking now that everyone is arriving? >> well, people are in a pretty good mood, scott. that may have something to to with the weather. anywhere who was here four years ago remembers how frigid it was, 28-plus degrees windchill and there was a lot of talk about the number of republicans who would be sitting this inauguration out, but i'm seeing plenty of republicans on the front terrace. including senate leaders, a number of senate republicans who are often at odds with the president, like rand paul of kentucky, or chuck grassley of iowa. and the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich who himself was a candidate for president. it's always interesting to see
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who gets the choice seats next to the president today. on this martin luther king day, we are seeing a number of african-american leaders. the president of the naacp, ben jealous, reverend al sharpton. we are seeing two of the president's former chiefs of staff, william daley and rahm emanuel. >> nancy, thank you. as we see mr. and mrs. clinton. former president oba former president clinton and secretary of state clinton. there will be two nobel peace prize winners on the dias today. that would be president carter who won the prize in 2002 and of course president obama who has won the prize. as we watch more dignitaries coming on to the west front of the capitol, let's go to our co-anchor of "cbs this morning." >> we saw mr. clinton and
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secretary of state clinton. one of the few sightings we saw of her, after she was out for a few weeks with the concussion and then the blood clot that was discovered there. bill clinton who is here today as you mentioned scott. the two president bushs will not be there today. we see -- it's a big week too for hillary clinton as she's going to testify in one of her last acts on what happened in benghazi, libya. that's on wednesday when she testifies before congress. >> thank you very much. ♪ listening to the u.s. army dr trumpeteer. >> ladies and gentlemen, president carter and mrs. rosalyn carter.
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>> the music that you're hearing in the background is, of course, the u.s. marine band, which will celebrate its 215th anniversary this year. the u.s. marine band, the longest running musical organization in the united states of america. thomas jefferson described it as the president's own band, and they have adopted that as their motto ever since, the president's own. ♪ >> former president carter
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having one of the most successful careers ever as a former president, starting the carter center, which has been working to promote human rights and peace around the world ever since. and as we mentioned, winning the nobel peace prize in 2002. >> you know, scott, in africa, for example, jimmy carter is one of our most well-known officials because of the work he's done to eliminate disease there, different things like that. it's remarkable what he has managed to achieve since he left the white house. >> and if we're listening to the army trumpets, that means somebody else of note is about to appear. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of
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the united states, william jefferson clinton, and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. >> hello! hey, how are you all? hi! [ cheers and applause ] >> god bless you! >> former president clinton, now 66 years old, has made a post-presidential career out of world peace himself with the clinton global initiative, which seeks to address issues of poverty, intolerance and conflict around the world. >> mrs. clinton is wearing low heels, by the way, scott, after that, you know, very terrible spill she had when she slipped,
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you know, and had that concussion. and people were very worried about her after the blood clot developed, but she looks pretty good! i mean, she looks as if she feels pretty good today, and i think a lot of people wondered if she would be here today, but here she is. the president, of course, he always enjoys himself. >> secretary clinton, of course, bob, as you know, came back to work as secretary of state several days ago but is in her last few days as secretary of state, as the president has announced that senator john kerry will be his nominee to be the new secretary of state. as we take this beautiful look at the crowd on the national mall, let us tell you that our cbs news coverage of the inauguration of the president will continue in just a moment. ♪
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natural gas processing plant in the desert. we are now told that the final tally is three americans dead, seven americans rescued in the operation to end that terrorist assault on the natural gas processing plant in the algerian desert. again, three americans have been killed in that terrorist assault, seven americans have been rescued. at the same time, we have breaking news in the world of politics, and bob schieffer has that. >> this is actually pretty good news. the republicans, we're told by a source, have decided to schedule a vote on raising the debt ceiling on wednesday. so, this means that one of the big hang-ups that everybody was worried about, the republicans have said they would not make a fight over this right now. they've agreed to raise the debt ceiling, as far as we know. this would be for three months, and then they would take it from there. but this gives everybody some
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breathing room and has to be taken as good news today. >> and now we see live the vice president's sons and the vice president's daughter taking their seat as the families of the president and the vice president are announced here on the west front of the u.s. capitol. we'll be expecting to see the first family again here shortly. and, of course, the crowds up and down the national mall, here to witness american history for themselves. they have a much easier day of it today than they did in 2009. in 2009 when the president took the oath, it was 28 degrees, but now it's about 39 degrees in washington and it is cloudy but a very beautiful day here, a perfect day for the inauguration of the president. >> looking at those pictures, scott, it's hard to believe that this crowd is only about a half, or maybe not even that much, of
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the size of the crowd that was here in 2008. it was just an extraordinary gathering, really the largest gathering ever in one place in washington, d.c., 1.8 million people by conservative counts. this one will probably be, you know, not that much. but you look at what a tremendous crowd this is. it just happens to not be as large as the one last time out. john mccain there wearing his shades. and then who is that, orrin hatch in the cowboy hat there? >> i can't quite tell. >> it's either orrin hatch or the lone ranger. >> you know, some of you may be curious about the flags that are hanging on the front of the u.s. capitol. but before we talk about that, here they are, malia and sasha, the president's daughters. malia now 14 years old and about as tall as the first lady, and sasha now 11 years old. that's their grandmother walking behind them, the first lady's mother, marian robinson.
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let's listen as they're announced. >> a little bit of a walk from where they were being held in the capitol out to the west front of the u.s. capitol. >> but as they go through that door, scott, it is truly the most spectacular sight in all of washington, because the mall opens up right in front of you. you can see all the way down to the lincoln memorial, even past the washington monument. you can see it all there. ronald reagan was the one who decided that they ought to have the inaugurations on the west front. up until his time, they held it on the other side of the capitol. but you know, the old movie actor knew the value of a good picture and he walked out and said we need to be having this
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here, so that's how it got started on the west side. >> and they've been there ever since. norah o'donnell is down there on the mall with the people of the united states. norah? >> and bob's right, there are hundreds of thousands of people here on the mall. they are saying that it would be between 600,000 and 800,000, but this is still expected to be the second largest inaugural in history. >> malia obama and sasha obama. also, miss marian robinson. >> and of course, scott, there you see the first daughters announced. malia 14 and sasha 11. we heard the president joke recently that they don't want to spend any time with him now that they're teenagers. and so, he would have more time to spend with members of congress, as people are urging him to reach across the aisle. and of course, just like their mother, they are accomplished young women, but there is attention on their fashion, and they both are wearing purple. and malia, who's the taller
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there, is wearing j. crew, and sasha is wearing a kate spade coat and dress. of course, people pay close attention to that, scott, and as many young women look up to them as role models. >> very shortly we'll expect to see mrs. biden, dr. jill biden, the wife of the vice president, announced and seated as well, as the last few dignitaries take their places at the west front of the capitol. i mentioned the flags hanging in front of the capitol earlier. some of you may have noticed those and wondered what those flags are all about. well, we can show you a picture of the flags hanging above the group now. there they are. the flags on the outside edges, those are the original betsy ross flags or the betsy ross design. the next flags in are the flags of the incoming president's home
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state as the united states was constituted at that time. for these purposes, they are considering the president's home state to be illinois, so that is what the u.s. flag looked like when the state of illinois was admitted. and of course, the flag in the middle is old glory as she is constituted today. we'll be expecting to hear the vice president's wife, jill biden, announced very shortly. and then following that, we will have the first lady and the president. ♪ >> there are malia and sasha. malia 14, sasha 11, standing there with their grandmother,
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marian robinson, the first lady's mother who lives at the white house and has lived at the white house these last four years. >> i think that is such a wonderful thing and such a really good thing, because she's there to be with the grandkids. and you know, what grandma -- i say this as a grandfather -- doesn't want to be with the grandkids? and she's there and she is kind of the core of stability for that family when the family's traveling. grandma's always there. i think it's just terrific. >> here's dr. biden in the gray outfit with the white pants. the vice president's wife right there in the middle.
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we should be seeing the first lady announced next. bob, as the dignitaries are passing through the capitol, they're passing under the dome in an area that's called the crypt. now, nobody's buried there. >> no. >> why is it called the crypt? >> well, they had planned for george washington to be buried there, and the capitol was designed, that was the idea. and washington's family wanted no part of that. they decided he'd be buried out at mt. vernon, at his home. but it has continued to this day to be called the crypt. and you know, when you're covering the capitol like i did for so many years, you know, it's always kind of fun when somebody says there's going to be a news conference at the crypt.
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[ laughter ] but that's just what they call it. >> here is the first lady now, as she has crossed through the crypt and is on her way down the stairs to the west front of the capitol, sporting her new hairstyle, which we saw for the first time just a few days ago. mrs. obama was standing there with her daughters as the president took the official oath of office which was yesterday at the white house in the white house blue room. >> i hope she's going to be warm enough out there. it's a beautiful coat, but maybe it's fur-lined or something, scott. it gets cold out there on that podium. i have stood out there doing inaugurals. they used to let the reporters get very close to the podium. and it can get very uncomfortable after you've been out there for a while. some of these people that are out in the crowd have been out there, i think they started seating them around 8:30 this morning, which is -- so, they're probably a little chilly by now.
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>> well, it's around about 39 degrees out there, which is much better than 2009 when it was about 28 degrees when the president took the oath. but bob, there have been some brutal inauguration days, snowstorms, terrible weather. >> well, ronald reagan, the second time around, remember they had to move it inside the capitol. >> mrs. michelle obama, accompanied by secretary of the senate, clerk of the house of representatives. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> mrs. obama making her way to the rest of her family, her
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daughters and her mother. the president will be seated next to them shortly. next, we should be hearing the announcer present the vice president of the united states. norah, as we watch the vice president making his way to the west front of the capitol, let's switch to you for a moment. >> that's right. and you know, the vice president last night was at an inaugural reception, and he was singing the praises of his boss, barack obama, and saying he's just getting started, he's just getting started. and he promised supporters at this reception last night that in the weeks and months ahead, that they would reduce gun violence in america, that they would pass comprehensive immigration reform, and he said, "we're going to put this nation's economy on a sustainable path."
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so, vice president biden has been an integral part, certainly, of this administration. and scott, there was a funny moment, too, this weekend during some of the festivities when the vice president was addressing supporters from iowa and said how proud he was to be the president of the united states. his son had to tap him on the shoulder and let him know that he misspoke. >> let's listen in as they announce the vice president. ♪
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>> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, joseph r. biden, accompanied by inaugural coordinator for the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, kelly fado, senate deputy sergeant at arms martina bradford, house deputy sergeant at arms kerry hanley, senate majority leader harry reid and house democratic leader nancy pelosi. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> and, of course, here's the president being led by the house
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sergeant at arms, paul irving, and followed by the senior senator from new york, charles schumer, who will be master of ceremonies leading up to the president's inauguration. the president passing through the part of the capitol known as the crypt and preparing to be announced at the west front of the capitol.
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>> members of the republican leadership behind the president as he is being led to the entrance to the west front. john boehner, the speaker of the house, four years ago in 2009 was merely the house minority leader, now the leader of republicans in the house of representatives. there is the crowd on the national mall, the vice president. in the foreground, members of the supreme court. >> i guess there's no standard hat for the supreme court members. justice scalia has that kind of large beret kind of thing, and then justice breyer right beside him, something like a bellhop's
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hat, isn't it? i mean, how do you -- >> many descriptions out there. >> style it, kind of come up with a new hat. >> there's the chief justice, john roberts jr. and here are the ruffles and flourishes from the army trumpeteers announcing the president of the united states. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama, escorted by jean hard win bore vits, terrance w. gainer, house sergeant at arms paul irving, chairman of the congressional committee on ceremonies, senator charles schumer, senator lamar alexander, the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner, senate majority leader harry reid, house majority leader eric cantor and house minority leader nancy pelosi.
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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪
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♪ >> the president gazing out on the crowd and on one of the most beautiful views of america, down the national mall, past the washington monument, all the way to the lincoln memorial. we know that president lincoln has been on the president's mind, as he has written, rewritten and rewritten his inaugural address for today. the president speaking to charles schumer there, the senior senator from new york. and when the official program begins in just a couple of minutes, senator schumer will be the master of ceremonies, introducing those who will be coming both before and after the
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president. the invocation will be delivered by myrlie evers-williams, the former chair of the naacp, and of course, the widow of medgar evers, one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement, who was assassinated in 1963. then justice sonia sotomayor will administer the oath of office to the vice president. chief justice john roberts jr. will administer the oath to the president. james taylor will be singing "america the beautiful." immediately after the president's oath, the president will deliver his second inaugural address. then we'll hear from kelly clarkson, as she sings "my country 'tis of thee." the poet who will speak today is richard blanco. he's a poet who was trained as a civil engineer because his parents insisted that writing would never take him anywhere, but he will be delivering his poetry today at the president's
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inauguration. and then the benediction will be delivered by luis leon, who is the rector of st. john's church, the little church right across the street from the white house. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the chairman for the inaugurational ceremonies, the honorable charles e. schumer. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, members of congress, all who are present and to all who are watching, welcome to the capitol and to this celebration of our great democracy. now, this is the 57th inauguration of an american president, and no matter how many times one witnesses this event, its simplicity, its innate majesty, and most of all, its meaning, that sacred and yet
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cautious entrusting of power from we, the people, to our chosen leader never fails to make one's heart beat faster, as it will today with the inauguration of president barack h. obama! now, we know that we would not be here today were it not for those who stand guard around the world to preserve our freedom. to those in our armed forces, we offer our infinite thanks for your bravery, your honor, your sacrifice. [ applause ] >> this democracy of ours was
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forged by intellect in argument, by activism and blood, and above all, from john adams to elizabeth cady stanton to martin luther king, by a stubborn adherence to the notion that we are all created equal and that we deserve nothing less than a great republic worthy of our consent. the theme of this year's inaugural is "faith in america's future." the perfect embodiment of this unshakeable confidence in the ongoing success of our collective journey is an event from our past. i speak of the improbable completion of the capitol dome and capping it with the statue of freedom, which occurred 150 years ago in 1863. when abraham lincoln took office two years earlier, the dome above us was a half-built eyesore. conventional wisdom was that it should be left unfinished until
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the war ended, given the travails and financial needs of the times. but to president lincoln, the half-finished dome symbolized a half-divided nation. lincoln said, "if people see the capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the union shall go on." and so, despite the conflict which engulfed the nation and surrounded the city, the dome continued to rise. on december 2nd, 1863, the statue of freedom, a woman, was placed atop the dome where she still stands today. in a sublime irony, it was a former slave, now free american philip reid, who helped to cast the bronze statue. now, our present times are not as perilous or as despairing as they were in 1863, but in 2013, far too many doubt the future of this great nation and our
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ability to tackle our own year's half-finished domes. today's problems are intractable, they say, the times are so complex, the differences in the country and the world so deep, we will never overcome them. when thoughts like these produce anxiety, fear and even despair, we do well to remember that americans have always been and still are a practical, optimistic, problem-solving people, and that as our history shows, no matter how steep the climb, how difficult the problems, how half-finished the task, america always rises to the occasion. america prevails and america prospers. [ cheers and applause ] and those who bet against this country have inevitably been on the wrong side of history.
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so, it is a good moment to gaze upward and behold the statue of freedom at the top of the capitol dome. it is a good moment to gain strength and courage and humility from those who were determined to complete the half-finished dome. it is a good moment to rejoice today at this 57th presidential inaugural ceremony, and it is the perfect moment to renew our collective faiths in the future of america. thank you and god bless these united states. in that spirit of faith, i would now like to introduce civil rights leader myrlie evers, who has committed her life to extending the promise of our nation's founding principles to
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all americans. mrs. evers will lead us in the invocation. >> america, we are here, our nation's capitol, on this day, january the 21st, 2013, the inauguration of our 45th president, barack obama. we come at this time to ask blessings upon our leaders, the president, vice president, members of congress, all elected and appointed officials of the
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united states of america. we are here to ask blessings upon our armed forces, blessings upon all who contribute to the essence of the american spirit, the american dream. the opportunity to become whatever our mankind, womankind allows us to be. this is the promise of america. as we sing the words of belief, this is my country, let us act upon the meaning that everyone is included. may the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of every woman, man, boy and girl be honored. may all your people, especially the least of these, flourish in
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our blessed nation. 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the march on washington, we celebrate the spirit of our ancestors, which has allowed us to move from a nation of unborn hopes and a history of disenfranchised folks to today's expression of a more perfect union. with ask, too, almighty, that where our paths seem blanketed by throngs of oppression and riddled by pangs of despair, we ask for your guidance toward the light of deliverance and that the vision of those who came before us and dreamed of this
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day, that we recognize that their visions still inspire us. they are a great cloud of witnesses unseen by the naked eye, but all around us, thankful that their living was not in vain. for every mountain you gave us the strength to climb, your grace is pleaded to continue that climb for america and the world. we now stand beneath the shadow of the nation's capitol, whose golden dome reflects the unity and democracy of one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. approximately four miles from where we are assembled, the hallowed remains of men and women rest in arlington cemet y
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cemetery, they who believed, fought and died for this country. may their spirit infuse our being to work together with respect, enabling us to continue to build this nation. and in so doing, we send a message to the world that we are strong, fierce in our strength and ever vigilant in our pursuit of freedom. we ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously but cautiously when confronted with danger and to act prudently but deliberately when challenged by adversity. please continue to best his efforts to lead by example in
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consideration and favor of the diversity of our people. bless our families all across this nation. we thank you for this opportunity of prayer to strengthen us, for the journey through the days that lie ahead. we invoke the prayers of our grandmothers who taught us to pr pray, god, make me a blessing. let their spirit guide us as we claim the spirit of old. there's something within me that holds the reins. there's something within me that banishes pain. there's something within me i
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cannot explain. but all i know, america, there is something within, there is something within. in jesus' name and the name of all who are holy and right, we pray. amen. >> i am pleased to introduce the award-winning tabernacle choir, the brooklyn tabernacle choir, to sing "battle hymn of the republic."
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♪ ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord ♪
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♪ he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪ ♪ he hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on
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♪ in the beauty of the lilies christ was born across the sea ♪ ♪ with the glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me ♪ ♪ as he died to make men whole, let us live to make men free ♪ ♪ our god is marching on ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah
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glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ marching on ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ his truth is march iing on ♪
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♪ marching on, his truth is marching on ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> please join me in welcoming my colleague and my friend, the senator from tennessee, the honorable lamar alexander. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, ladies and gentlemen, the late alex haley, the author of "roots," lived his life by
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these six words -- find the good and praise it. today we praise the american tradition of transferring or reaffirming immense power in the inauguration of the president of the united states. we do this in a peaceful, orderly way. there is no mob, no coup, no insurrection. this is a moment when millions stop and watch, a moment most of us always will remember. it is a moment that is our most conspicuous and enduring symbol of the american democracy. how remarkable that this has survived for so long in such a complex country when so much power is at stake. this freedom to vote for our
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leaders and the restraint to respect the results. last year at mt. vernon, a tour guide told me that our first president, george washington, once posed this question -- what is most important, washington asked, of this grand experiment, the united states? and then washington answered his own question in this way -- not the election of the first president, but the election of its second president, the peaceful transfer of power is what will separate our country from every other country in the world. so, today we celebrate the 57th inauguration of the american preside president. find the good and praise it. now, it is my honor -- [ applause ]
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it is my honor to introduce the associate justice of the supreme court, sonia sotomayor, for the purpose of administering the oath of office to the vice president. will everyone please stand? >> thanks for doing this. >> thank you. mr. vice president, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear. >> i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
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>> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> and that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> and that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> the duties of the office of which i am about to enter. >> the duties of the office of which i am about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. ♪
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>> it is my pleasure to introduce renowned musical artist james taylor. ♪ oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountains'
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majesties above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america, america, god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ from sea to shining sea
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[ applause ] >> it is my honor to present the chief justice of the united states, john g. roberts jr., who will administer the presidential oath of office. everyone, please rise. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of the president of the united states. >> the office of the president of the united states. >> and will, to the best of my ability.
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>> and will, to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege and distinct honor to introduce the 44th president of the united states of america, barack h. obama! [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you.
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thank you. thank you so much. vice president biden, mr. chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests and fellow citizens, each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constituti constituti constitution, we affirm the promise of our democracy, we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the penance of our faith or the origins of our names.
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what makes us exceptional, what makes us american is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." that being endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. for history tells us that while
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these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing, that while freedom is a gift from god, it must be secured by his people here on earth. the patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. they gave to us a republic, a government of and by and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. and for more than 200 years, we ha ha have, through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half
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slave and half free. we made ourselves anew and vowed to move forward together. together we determined that a modern economy that creates railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train our workers. together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. together, we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumb to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone. our celebration of initiatives and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal
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responsibility, these are constants in our character. we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. for the american people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than american soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. no single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need to equip our children for the future or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. now more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people.
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this generation of americans has been tested by crises that sealed our resolve and proved our resilience. a decade of war is now ending. an economic recovery has begun. america's possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands -- youth and drive, diversity and openness, an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. my fellow americans, we are made for this moment and we will seize it so long as we seize it together.
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for we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. we believe that america's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know that america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work, when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. we are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed she is free. and she is equal not just in the eyes of god, but also in our own.
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we understand that our programs are inadequate to the needs of our time, but we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher. but while the means will change, our purpose in doing, a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. that is what this moment requires. that is what will give real meaning to our creed. we, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit.
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but we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country, and investing in the generation that will build its future. for we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. we do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other, through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our nation, they strengthen us.
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they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. we, the people, still believe that our obligations as americans are not just to ourselves, but to all prosperity. we will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. the path towards sustainable
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energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. but america cannot resist this transition. we must lead it. we cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industry, we must claim its promise. that's how we will maintain our economic vitality, and our national treasure. our forests and waterways, our croplands and snow-capped peaks. that is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by god. that's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. we, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
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our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. our citizens, feared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. the knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. but we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war. who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time, as well. we will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms, and the rule of law. we will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully, not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because
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engagement can more durbly lift suspicion and fear. america will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe, and we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crises abroad. for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation. we will support democracy from asia to africa, from the americas to the middle east, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom, and we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice, not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes, tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
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we, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal, is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forbears through seneca falls and selma and stonewall, just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone. to hear a king proclaim, that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth. it is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. for our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.
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our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well. our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce, rather than expelled from our country. our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of detroit to the hills
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of appalachia to the quiet lanes of newtown know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. that is our generation's task. to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every american. being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life. it does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way. or follow the same, precise path to happiness. progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us
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to act in our time. for now, decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay. we cannot mistake absoluteism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name calling as reasoned debate. we must act. we must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. we must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and 40 years, and 400 years hence, to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare, philadelphia hall. my fellow americans, the oath i
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have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this capitol, was an oath to god and country, not party or faction. and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service. but the words i spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty. or an immigrant realizes her dream. my oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride. they are the words of citizens, and they represent our greatest hope. you and i, as citizens, have the power to set this country's courses. you and i, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates
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of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas. let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birth right. with common effort, and common purpose, with passion, and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. thank you, god bless you. and may he forever bless these united states of america.
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>> at this time, please join in welcoming award winning artist, kelly clarkson, accompanied by the united states marine band.
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♪ ♪ my country 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land of liberty of thee i sing ♪ ♪ land where my fathers died land of the pilgrims' pride from every mountainside let freedom ring ♪
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♪ let music swell the breeze and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song ♪ ♪ let mortal tongues awake let all that breathe partake ♪ ♪ let rocks their silence break ♪
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♪ our father's god to thee author of liberty to thee we sing ♪ ♪ long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light ♪ ♪ protect us by thy might great god our king ♪
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>> wow. our next distinguished guest is the poet richard blanco who will share with us words he has composed for this occasion. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, america, one today.
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one sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the smokies, greeting the faces of the great lakes, spreading a simple truth across the great plains and charging across the rockies. one light, waking up rooftops, under each one a story, told by our silent gestures, moving across windows. my face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors, each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day. the pencilled yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights, fruit stands, apples, limes and oranges, arrayed like rainbows, begging our praise.
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silver trucks, heavy with oil or paper, bricks or milk, teeming over highways, alongside us, on our way, to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives. to teach geometry, or ring up groceries, as my mother did, for 20 years, so i could write this poem for all of us today. all of us. as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day, equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined. the i have a dream we all keep dreaming. or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain the
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empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever. many prayers, but one life, breathing color into stained glass windows, life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth onto the steps of our museums and park benches, as mothers watch children slide into the day. one ground. our ground. rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands. hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm. hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables. hands as worn as my father's, cutting sugarcane so my brother
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and i could have books and shoes. the dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains, mingled by one wind, our breath. breathe. hear it through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs, buses launching down avenues, the symphony of footsteps, guitars and screeching subways. the unexpected song bird on your clothesline. hear squeaky playground swings, trains whistling, or whispers acrokrocross cafe tables. hear the doors we open each day for each other, saying, hello, shall up, bon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos dias.
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in the language my mother taught me. in every language, spoken into one wind, carrying our lives without prejudice, as these words break from my lips. one sky, since the appalachians and sierras claimed their majesty, and the mississippi and colorado worked their way to the sea. thank the work of our hands, weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report for the boss on time, stitching another wound or uniform. the first brush stroke on a portrait, or the last floor on the freedom tower, jutting into the sky, that yields to our resilience. one sky. toward which we sometimes lift our eyes, tired from work.
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some days guessing at the weather of our lives. some days giving thanks for a love that loves you back. sometimes praising a mother who knew how to give, or forgiving a father who couldn't give what you wanted. we head home through the gloss of rain or weight of snow, or the plum blush of dusk. but always, always home. always under one sky. our sky. and always one moon, like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country. all of us, facing the stars. hope, a new constellation.
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waiting for us to map it. waiting for us to name it, together. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is now my privilege to introduce reverend dr. luis leon to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray.
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gracious and eternal god, as we conclude the second inauguration of president obama, we ask for your blessings as we seek to become, in the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community, loving you and loving our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will douse us with your continued presence, because without it, hatred and arrogance will infect our hearts. but with your blessing, we know that we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today, because without it, mistrust, prejudice, and rancor will rule our hearts. but with the blessing of your presence, we know that we can renew the ties of mutual regard which can best form our civic life. we pray for your blessing,
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because without it, suspicion, despair, and fear of those different from us will be our rule of life. but with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image. a unit of god's grace, unprecedented, irrepeatable, and irreplaceable. repray for your blessing, because without it, we will see only what the eye can see. but with the blessing of your blessing we will see that we are created in your image, whether brown, black, or white, male or female, first generation immigrant american, or daughter of the american revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor. we pray for your blessing, because without it, we will only see scarcity in the midst of
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abundance. but with your blessing, we will recognize the abundance of the gifts of this good land with which you have endowed this nation. we pray for your blessing. bless all of us. privileged to be citizens and residents of this nation, with a spirit of gratitude and humility that we may become a blessing among the nations of this world. we pray that you will shower with your life-giving spirit the elected leaders of this land, especially barack our president and joe our vice president. fill them with the love of truth and righteousness, that they may serve this nation ably and be glad to do your will. endow their hearts with wisdom and forbearance so that peace may prevail with righteousness,
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justice with order, so that men and women throughout this nation can find with one another the fulfillment of our humanity. we pray that the president, vice president, and all in political authority will remember the words of the prophet micah, what doth the lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and always walk humbly with god. [ speaking spanish ] mr. president, mr. vice president, may god bless you all your days. all this, we pray in your most holy name. amen.
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>> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the singing of our national anthem by award-winning artist, beyonce, accompanied by the u.s. marine band. following the national anthem, please remain at your place while the presidential party exits the platform. ♪ ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪
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♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night
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that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪ ♪ the brave
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>> not at all sure that beyonce needed the microphone. i'm sure they probably could have heard her all the way down to the lincoln memorial without it. a beautiful rendition of the national anthem as we hear the marine band strike up the tune and we watch the president and the rest of the dignitaries proceed to lunch in the capitol. the president's second inaugural address might be considered, when you strip everything away, might be considered on this martin luther king day to have been a civil rights speech. right in the middle of the speech, the president said, we declare today the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal, it is the star that guides us, just as it guided our forbears through seneca falls and selma and
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stonewall. three touchstones of the american civil rights movement. seneca falls. the first major women's rights convention in seneca falls, new york, in 1948. stonewall, the stonewall inn in new york city, 1969, a gay bar that the new york city police raided, touching off the gay rights movement. and selma, of course, selma, alabama, 1965, where the police cracked down on the freedom marchers. the president used the preamble of the constitution, those first three words, we, the people. over and over again. in a speech that sought to stitch together the very tapestry of the american people.
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we're joined up here by bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent, and anchor of "face the nation," and note the presidential historian doug brinkley. bob, what did you hear in the speech? >> well, i'll tell you what i did not hear. i didn't hear a line that kind of sums it up. there was no, the only thing we have to fear, there was no, with malice toward none, with charity for all. i kept looking in the speech at some point for that line. this was not that kind of a speech. in a funny kind of way, this was almost more like a state of the union speech where the president lays out his programs, and so forth. i'll tell you something else i did not hear. i did not hear him ask the american people for anything. there was no call to sacrifice, no ask not what you -- what your country can do for, but what you can do for your country. i suppose the -- i guess, if i
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understood what the president was saying today, it was that, on martin luther king's birthday, the next step for the march toward full equality has to deal with gay people. i would expect that would be the deadline. >> and richard blouanco the poe we heard after the president's address is a gay american and luis leon, the president of st. john's church who delivered the benediction, leads a church that performs same-sex marriages, as well. so a subtle statement there with the choosing of those gentlemen. doug brinkley, what did you hear in the speech? >> i thought it was a brave and visionary speech, written and delivered in a martin luther king style. i think it will be seen as a great civil rights speech. it's not, you know, and remember, also, in this, he brought in climate change. do you realize in all the presidential debates climate never came up. so it's not necessarily on everybody's mind. and he devoted a paragraph
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towards the climate issue saying we've got to do something about it, then went on talking about our natural resources. presidents you don't often hear talk about conservation. and the gay rights part of it. you could hear the cheering in the french quarter and castro street in greenwich village. this is a liberation speech for gay americans and it builds on the president's accomplishment of getting gay marriage, you know, institutionalized for america in the process of that. and finally, when he supports social security, medicaid and medicare, that's straight lyndon johnson, great society talk. this is a speech in the progressive tradition. at some points it's like the second inaugural of franklin roosevelt where fdr in 1937 said be proud you're an individual but there's also a collective. and you guys mentioned the word people, how often he said, we, the people. but this is, we, the people almost in a howard zimm people of america kind of way. this was about ordinary people
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fighting for ordinary rights, stonewall has replaced normandy. you know, selma has replaced iwo jima. there wasn't a marshal tone, this was about inclusion. >> he used the term we, and he used the term common creed over and over again throughout the speech. norah o'donnell was listening to the speech down there on the national mall. nor norah? >> and, scott, on that theme the president used the word together some seven times. a word he used just once in 2009. and i think you're right, this was in some ways a civil rights speech. because the president said, our journey is not complete. that's the message on this martin luther king day. and he said when times change, so must we. so i think all of those things are right. and he said, you know, it's not what binds this nation together is not the color of our skin, or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names, it's the values. the values and the declaration of independence. so this is his second inaugural.
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but this, i think, speech, is also in tune with the message that barack obama has had since 2004 when we were first introduced to him at the democratic convention in a way. when he gave that speech about kind of trying to be a unifying president. it continues the tradition of obama trying to bring people together. that's not been his record in office as president. but it's still the message that he adhered to in big speeches like this. >> and there's john kerry, who the president has nominated to be secretary of state. and behind john kerry was jack lew, who the president has nominated to be treasury secretary. the president has a new team that he's trying to get approved by the senate. this will be some of the first business that will be before the congress. the new treasury secretary, the new secretary of state. and, of course, confirming chuck hagel as the new secretary of defense. there's beyonce, who did such a magnificent job with the national anthem just a few moments ago. john dickerson is our cbs news
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political director, and he is down there with, we, the people, on the national mall. john? >> scott, normally presidents in these speeches, they take history and they bring it onstage so they can attach their agenda to it. as we've talked about, in his first speech barack obama mentioned concord, gettysburg, normandy. that history has been replaced with the civil rights history and the agenda is more in keeping with that. he talked about immigration, climate change, gun control, these are all items that when republicans i've been e-mailing with hear this, they hear the return of big government, and also they heard in his speech when the president said support for those new deal programs, make us -- they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risk that make this country great. that is code language from the campaign in which republicans talked about makers versus takers. there are echoes here that republicans here, and they get their back up. >> talk about unity.
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in one shot you have jay-z and paul ryan. i don't know under what circumstances you would ever have those men in the same frame. but jay-z with beyonce, of course, and paul ryan the republican nominee for vice president. this is a live picture of the president proceeding through the capitol. he's headed to a lunch, the traditional lunch proceeding under the great dome of the capitol. the 150th anniversary of the completion of the dome is this year. a dome built during the civil war. a symbol of the unity of the nation. the president's proceeding in to that lunch now. there was a moment that occurred on the west front, just after all of this was wrapped up, after the national anthem was sung, and the president had something to say. and we wanted to show that to you.
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>> the president taking one last look at this view. he wanted to stop and linger and see it, record it so that he would never forget his last opportunity to look down the national mall toward the washington monument and the lincoln memorial, to see the crowd who came to hear him deliver his inaugural speech. byron pitts is down in that crowd right now. byron? >> well, scott, i'll tell you the mood is very different this year from four years ago. for one, president obama's speech was much shorter this time. in 2009 he spoke for over 19 minutes. we clocked him today at 18 minutes and 17 seconds. four years ago it was much colder, scott, as you'll remember, so people huddled close and leaned into the president's speech. this time people so the camp for thebly in their chairs and seemed to nod in approval as he spoke. four years ago we watched as
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people wept openly. didn't see a single tear this time. i spoke to one gentleman from pennsylvania, a white man, who said he cried four years ago. i said what happened this time? he said, well, the novelty has passed. we're over now. now it's about the nuts and bolts of government, not the novelty of an african-american president. now scott, finally, on this martin luther king day, we spoke to mrs. edwina moses, the wife of president otis moses of cleveland, ohio. they were married by dr. king 50 years ago. she said today is a joyous day for her and her husband. scott? >> now, this is a live picture of the president and the vice president. you see there, in the capitol. they will be signing official documents that are related to the inauguration. speaker of the house, john boehner, standing behind him. eric cantor, majority leader of the house and nancy pelosi, the
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minority leader. president obama at the age of 51 beginning his second term. >> -- which i know will be -- with great disabandon. >> he is now talking about the cabinet nominations. as we mentioned there are several key nominations, the president naming john kerry to be secretary of state. chuck hagel to be defense secretary. and jack lew to be secretary of the treasury. key positions in the government that the president will certainly want to see the senate act on right away. >> well thank you very much, everybody. look forward to it.
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>> we're told that on the way to lunch, the president and his party will stop by a bust of martin luther king jr., which stands in the capitol, and stand there for a moment of reflection as this inauguration day coincides with martin luther king day in this country. the president handing out pens, as he often does after signing bills. as they proceed to the elaborate formal luncheon in statuary hall of the capitol, let's go back outside to chip reid, who is with one family that traveled a good distance to reach washington, and watch this moment in history. chip?
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>> yeah, well, scott, you would think they were one family. it's actually two families. they're very good friend. the collins family who brought their three children and the roth family who brought their two children. and they felt that it was very important to be here for this. shannon collins, tell me why. >> we just think it's an awesome experience and awesome time for the kids to see our first african-american president, in his second term. we think it shows them that they can be what they want to be and anything that they work hard to be. >> how about you? michelle roth. i got it right? >> yes, you did. i share her sentiments exactly. it's very important for our children to see that they can be anything they want to be. and it's more importantly for us, as small business owners of a small hospice company we think what he has to say about health care and small business was very important. >> is it also important to you to be able to, for your children to be able to say for the rest of their lives that they were here at this moment? >> exactly. they'll have stories for their
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children, our grandchildren to say where were you at that time? and we can say, we were right there. >> david, you were saying you didn't know what an inauguration was before you came here today. what do you think about it now? >> well, actually, i think it's pretty cool now. >> it changed your mind about what you want to do with your life? >> yeah, i sort of want to be a president now. >> now, i knew that was coming, scott. he told us earlier he felt that way. but i thought i would share that with the world. scott, back to you. >> hey, chip, who is that in the pink parka there? did that little guy sleep through the inauguration? who do we have there in the pink parka? >> this is -- this is trinity here. trinity is 2, and she slept through quite a bit of it. but she also did some wandering around in the crowd and attracted a lot of attention. back here you have carter, and over here you have zero, aoe, ay are twins. they actually listened to quite a bit of the speech. they are four years old and the entire family was, i can say, i watched them, very much engaged
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in the entire inauguration and especially when the president spoke. scott? >> well, i know their parents will be reminding them of this day as they grow older. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue. in just a moment. george washington had help writing his first inaugural address from a future president, james madison. washington's second inaugural address in 1793 was the shortest in history, at a minute and a half. or 135 words. maybe you can be there;
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maybe you can't. when you have migraines with fifteen or more headache days a month, you miss out on your life. you may have chronic migraine. go to mychronicmigraine.com to find a headache specialist. and don't live a maybe life. the weather has played a significant role in presidential inaugurations. but never more so than in 1841. william henry harrison was sworn
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in as the ninth u.s. president on a cold and windy day, with 8,445 word speech lasted an hour and 40 minutes. the longest inaugural address ever. he then rode a horse from the capitol back to the white house with no hat or overcoat, and he came down with pneumonia. william henry harrison died one month later. the shortest presidency in the nation's history. >> well, the weather did not take nearly such a toll on the crowd here on the national mall today. it's 41 degrees outside. it was only 28 degrees when the president took his first oath in 2009. it's a cloudy day in washington. but the weather has not been nearly the terrible kind of situation that it has been in previous -- previous times when presidents have been inaugurated. there have been some fierce snowstorms and deeply cold
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temperatures. but today was a beautiful day for an inauguration. let's have a look now. we want to replay for you the president taking the oath of office from the chief justice of the united states, john roberts jr. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of president of the united states. >> the office of president of the united states. >> and will, to the best of my ability. >> and will, to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god? >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> so you could see the first lady there, just beaming at her husband, as he took the oath for the second time. in 2009 she had a look on her face like she couldn't believe she was there. this time, a look on her face of
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absolute love and admiration for her husband as he is sworn in. the oath is just 35 words. and it is written in our original constitution. the 1787 constitution. doug brinkley, where do those words come from? >> from the constitution, section number 2, from it, and washington delivered the first one, our founding fathers, the creators of our country, they had to make an oath, they had to create the great seal of the united states, they had to pick the eagle symbol. this was all work going on and what's controversy is you hear so help me god. it's unclear whether washington actually said that. that's not in the official oath. it's been improvised over the years but it's really franklin d. roosevelt who started putting that in and every president since franklin roosevelt has just said it but it's not constitutionally mandated. >> you know, scott, barack obama is the first president since franklin roosevelt to now have taken the oath four times. because he took it twice in
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2009, because the chief justice sort of misstated part of it. and they were afraid for legal reasons, he came back the next day and took it. and then, of course, he took it yesterday, because january 20th is the day that the constitution says you have to take it. and then repeated it again today. only fdr has taken it that many times. >> so president obama has made history again, fdr, of course, was elected four times and had to take the oath four times but the president has taken it four times for the reasons you just stated. the 20th amendment of the constitution sets january 20th as the day that the president must take the oath. must take the oath by noon on january 20th. but because it fell on sunday, they decided to put off all of the official ceremonies to today. but the president was sworn in yesterday, at the white house, in the blue room, with just his family and the chief justice present. sworn in before noon. for the beginning of his second term. these are live pictures now of
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the national mall, as the crowd begins to thin out after beyonce rocked the mall, singing the national anthem just a short while ago. the president, and other dignitaries, are heading soon to statuary hall inside the capitol for the big formal luncheon that always comes after this. and then following that, we will see the president in the procession back to the white house about 1.6 miles away. there is jack lew, who is the president's nominee for secretary of the treasury, awaiting confirmation by the senate. nancy cordes has been on the west front of the capitol building for us all morning this morning. nancy, you're beginning to look a little lonely out there. >> i am, scott. i'm looking at all the activity here on the west front that remains, and it is a bunch of people taking pictures beyonce as she poses at that west front
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door, with her husband jay-z in front of all that red swag around the door front. it may be, scott, the fact that i cover capitol hill, but i read a lot of the president's speech today as a message to congress. almost pleading with them to work with him to get something done. he said these truths may be self-evident, but they're not self-executing. in other words, don't let the purpose be the enemy of the good, let's just get something done. he said, absoluteism can't be a replacement for principle. and that name calling isn't the same thing as debate. he knows that his legacy in large part is going to depend on congress working with him to enact legislation. republicans, of course, many of whom were sitting here today, will argue that it is the president that needs to meet them halfway and needs to get far more engaged with republicans on capitol hill, if he wants to work on some of these major issues that he's outlined for a second term like
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immigration and tax reform. >> the president has long agenda for the second term, and major garrett, our chief white house correspondent has been watching allful this from the other end of pennsylvania avenue there on the north lawn of the white house. major? >> well, scott, many senior administration officials tell us that this speech reflects, in large measure, what the president thought the entire campaign for his re-election was all about. settling some arguments, advancing others. let's talk for a moment about the arguments the president believes, and white house believes this speech reflects, which settled in this campaign, that was just concluded. one, an end to endless war. the president's winding down the war in afghanistan. ended the war in iraq as he pledged to as a candidate for the democratic nomination. but the middle class is the center of all economic kelps as far as his presidency is concerned. he said one time in the speech that we are liberated -- rather wages for honest work can liberate people from hardship. also the president believes civil rights issues, particularly gay rights, were
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settled during his first term, when at the pentagon and throughout all military service, "don't ask, don't tell" was ended under his watch and he embraced formally for the first time gay marriage across the country. what arguments are to be settled for fought for in the future? climate change, immigration and tax reform among others. the president did at one point in his speech say there are some parts of government that need to be reformed, but our usefulness of one small olive branch to republicans. but we are not a nation of takers and the fundamental foundations of the great society, medicare, medicaid and social security will be preserved under his watch and the encroachments republicans would like to make on those programs from the president's perspective in the name of deficit reduction will be, if not repelled, at least resisted. scott? >> major, thank you very much. this is the crowd in washington, d.c., live, as they begin to wander away from the national mall, after witnessing american history firsthand.
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during the president's first inauguration, in 2009, a historic event for the nation, of course, there were 1.8 million people in the national mall. it was the largest gathering this city has ever seen. today, we don't have the estimates, but fair to say, something perhaps just under a million people. second inaugurations always lack the thrill of the first. but, still, a very large crowd has come to see the president today. the president will proceed with the rest of the dignitaries in to a luncheon at statuary hall. and then will go back down to the white house and we will see the inaugural parade as it proceeds to the afternoon. there is, of course, 66-year-old former president bill clinton. because of the illness of george herbert walker bush, only democratic presidents were in attendance today. that is a very rare occurrence,
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but because the elder mr. bush has been ill, the younger mr. bush decided to stay back with him, and so both sent their regrets, and were unable to come. there you see secretary of state hillary clinton in the lower right. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of the president will continue from washington, d.c. in just a moment. ,,,,,,,,
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cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration continues. here again is scott pelley. >> pelley: we're back live joined by bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent and douglas brinkley, the noted presidential historian back in washington today for the president's inauguration. we saw the president take the oath of office and deliver his second inaugural address and the president and other dignitaries are now heading into the traditional lunch in statuary hall in the u.s. capitol. also in the capitol today we have u.s. representative john lewis. he's a representative from the state of georgia and one of the great leaders of the civil rights movement. this, of course, being martin luther king day in addition to inauguration day. and we wanted to speak with congressman lewis now if we can switch to him. congressman lewis, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you very well. >> pelley: you know, congressman
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lewis, to bob schieffer and i it sounded very much-- this speech the president just delivered-- sounded very much as a civil rights speech but including not just the struggle that you fought, sir, but also the struggle of women and of gay americans. >> it was all all-inclusive speech. the president was very clear that we're one america, that we're one people. he was saying in effect it doesn't matter whether we're black or white, latino, asian american, a native american, it doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay, democrat or republican or independent, that we're one people, we're one family, we're one house. it was fitting. it was like a speech that martin luther king, jr. would have made on this day. he was standing on the foundation of what martin luther king, jr. said 50 years ago. >> schieffer: do you think congressman this will have the kind of impact on the country
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that martin luther king's had? do you think -- do you see this as one of those inaugural speeches that causes the nation to rethink where we are right now? like john kennedy's speech, like the inaugural speech of lyndon johnson. how would you sum this one up? >> well, i think it was a powerful, all-inclusive speech. it was saying in effect that in spite of our differences that we must continue to work together for the common good and that we must look out for each other. it was almost like the "we shall overcome" speech that listen don johnson delivered on march 15, 1965 and i think it was fitting to do it on martin luther king day, the same year that we observed a 50 anniversary of the march on washington and the "i have a dream speech."
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>> congressman lewis, you were one of the speakers on the national mall in 1963. in fact, i believe you're the last survivaling speaker from that remarkable moment in american history so think back to your younger self and visualize what it would have been like to stand on the mall and watch an african american president be grated on the west front of the capitol. could you have imagined that in 1963? >> well, i stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial almost 50 years ago, august 28, 1963. if someone had told me then one day i would be a member of congress, that i will see an african american not guilty to rated as president of the united states i would have said "you're crazy, you're out of your mind, you don't know what you're talking about." my own folks, my own mother and father and grandparents could not register to vote 50 years
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ago. in a speech that i delivered on that day i mentioned the fact that people could not register to vote. i said something like "one man one vote is our cry." and it's a different world. and i feel like saying to people who said nothing has changed, come and walk in my shoes. >> pelley: congressman lewis, you knew dr. king quite well. help us imagine what he would think of this day? >> well, dr. martin luther king, jr. would be very proud of the progress we've made. he would be very excited about this day. it's like a dream being fulfilled. he would be saying hallelujah, hallelujah, we're moving closer and closer to the beloved community, to the promised land. >> schieffer: do you think, congressman, that we'll see many
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of these things that the president sort of mentioned? he sort of ran through a list of them very eloquently but it was a list. what do you think is most likely to happen in this coming session of congress? what do you think he might be able to get done here? >> well, we have a lot of work to do. i think one thing this president is going to do with many members of congress, both democrats and republican,s, we're going to work very, very hard to bring hundreds and thousands and millions of people out of the shadows, out of the darkness into the light and set them on a path to citizenship. it's a shame and a disgrace that hundreds and thousands and millions of people live in constant fear in our country and we're going to do something about immigration. we're going to pass immigration reform and we will do it on the watch of this president.
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>> pelley: john lewis, one of the great voices of the civil rights movement and now the senior member of the georgia congressional delegation, we're grateful to you. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> pelley: we've been watching live pictures of the dignitaries who are flowing into the luncheon. there's eric cantor, republican leader. there is nancy pelosi and now we're hearing "ruffles and flourishes." the presidenttor vice president must be next. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states joseph r. biden, jr., and dr. biden accompanied by senator lamar alexander and mrs. alexander. (applause)
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>> pelley: this is statuary hall where they are holding this luncheon. it's a favorite of people when they come to visit the capitol. every state in the union is invited to contribute two statues to statuary hall. two of the great citizens of each state. this is actually where the congress met. this was the third place that was corrected for the house of representatives. this was the house of representatives chamber after the british burned down the capitol in 1814 this is the new place where they would be congregating after the war of 1812. bob schieffer, they finally ran out of room and had to move yet again. >> schieffer: but it's still one of the most impressive places and you can stand -- there's a certain place where you can stand when you're there, when
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there are not a lot of people. and saying? a whisper and it bounces off the ceiling in such a way that you can hear it on the other side of the capitol. when i used to cover the capitol i'd always take visitors there because it's one of the most fun things you can do in the capitol the each state nominates two people to be represented there and it's just a really wonderful place if you're visiting washington you want to see this particular room. >> pelley: one of my favorite statue is the statue of jack swigert who was placed there by the state of colorado. he was one of the "apollo 13" astronauts and it's striking because he's wearing his "apollo 13" spacesuit and, of course, very different than a lot of the 19th century and 1th century characters that you see.
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>> pelley: sam houston was dressed slightly differently. we'll be expecting to see the president and the first lady enter the luncheon soon. doug brinkley, how long have they been doing this and how did it begin? >> well, it's sometimes very informal. often times people will -- since the great depression years, since franklin roosevelt it's become more institutionalized. we now have a pro forma march of orders that we do so they've become very similar. >> pelley: orrin hatch has removed that large white cowboy hat that we saw on the platform. >> pelley: norah o'donnell is down on the national match with us this morning. norah? >>
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>> scott, this is an opportunity for these members of congress, both republican and democrat, to break bread together but they're also dining on steamed lobster and bison and wine from new york as chuck schumer instructed today. this is a tradition on the hill as you noted in statuary hall, one of the most beautiful areas on capitol hill. but i think the question that comes to my mind on this occasion is these types of social gatherings are so rare here in washington where helps of both parties are celebrating the -- this historic day and whether this kind of comedy can go on before -- later after, they can get something done, because there's just -- >> pelley: and, norah, here comes the president. oh, i'm sorry, it's the vice president. he was announced earlier but missed his cue. (laughs) so here comes the vice president
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and the president will be next. norah, as we wait to hear "ruffles and flourishes" and "hail to the chief" signaling the entrance of the president, please continue. tell us more >> well, you see the vice president who has been so instrumental who served in the senate for more than three decades who really helped put this last fight with congress to bed by being able to reach across the aisle and talk about the republican leader mitch mcconnell so he's instrumental in terms of dealing with congress. now we see the first lady and the president along with the capital police chief terence gaynor there walking in for this luncheon. it's a quick break before we still have the parade ahead of us, scott, which is, of course, always one of the highlights of an inaugural to see the president and first lady down pennsylvania avenue make their way back to the white house. >> schieffer:.
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>> pelley: as we look at that shot from the top of the capitol dome, let's listen as they announce the president into statuary hall. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama and mrs. obama accompanied by senator charles e. schumer and mrs. schumer." (cheers and applause)
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>> please be seated. it wasn't on the script but i picked it up. (laughter)
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mr. president -- ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. mr. president, mr. vice president, honored guests, my colleagues on the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies and i are pleased to welcome you to today's inaugural luncheon. in this historic room, we look around at the 35 statues representing men and women -- well, one woman. thank you, illinois, and senator durbin for the statue of frances willard.
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though i feel obligated to note that she was born in rochester, new york. (laughter) 4 thankfully, she will soon have company when rosa parks completes her journey from the back of the bus to the front of statuary hall later this year. (applause) now, we look around and remember the men and women who helped define our nation. they, like us, faced obstacles and they, like us, worked hard to move this country forward. here in this hall, four presidents took the oath of office. here abraham lincoln served his single term in congress. and john quincy adams, the only former president to return to serve in the house, spoke out against slavery. today we also remember an event that took place outside this
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building but reverberated within. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the reverend martin luther king, jr.'s march on washington which spurred passage of the historic civil rights laws. we're honored to have with us a colleague-- congressman john lewis-- who was a speaker at that historic march. (applause) congressman lewis' life exemplifies the courage and sacrifice that have made our nation great. john, please stand and take a bow so we all can recognize you. (cheers and applause) behind us, the painting we have chosen for this luncheon is niagra falls.
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painted in 1856 by ferdinand ricaard. for me as a new yorker, niagra falls never fails to inspire a tremendous awe for the natural beauty of our great country. then and now the mighty falls symbolize the grandeur, power, and possibility of america. and i want to thank my former senate partner, our great secretary of state hillary rodham clinton, for allowing us to borrow this beautiful painting from the state department collection. (applause) but, frankly, we aren't here for the paintings, we're here for the food. and while the theme of today's ceremony is based in america's future. today's menu could be labeled based in america's food. from the new england lobster to the heirloom vegetables to the
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south dakota vegetables to the wonderful new york wines each element was carefully chosen and expertly prepared it was chosen by the tasting committee which consisted of debbie boehner (diana cantor, paul pelosi, honey alexander and my wife iris. they did a great job and the effort was truly bipartisan so if you don't like the food, you can't blame it on one party or the other. but i know that won't happen. i know you'll enjoy it. before we begin, it is my privilege to ask the reverend luis cortez, jr., president of esperanz, to deliver the innovation after which lunch will be served.
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>> let us join together in prayer. god, in the room stands men and women of differing beliefs, differing understandings of how you reveal your will and your desire to us. yet at this moment our nation joins with us in prayer and supplication that despite political differences within these chambers and despite the fact that at times we may take for granted things that are unique to our american democracy that we be united in hope and aspiration for the future of our nation. we pray for continued freedom. freedom to pursue happiness. freedom to create goodness. freedom to preserve the common good. we pray for continued liberty. liberty to preserve our rights. liberty to defend our ourselfing of good. liberty to develop ourselves fully as you would have us. our nation prays with us as we
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ask that our leaders be endowed with wisdom. that they may know on which path they should move our nation. with courage that they may go against their own when necessary for the common good of our beloved america. with resolve that they not tire but move unrelating towards that common good. we pray a blessing on our house of representatives, on our senate and our judicial and executive branches. bestow on every member spiritual protection and good health. we uphold president barack obama and his family in the same main manner. we thankful for the religious freedom of this nation, for our family and friends, and for this meal which we will now share, remembering that there are still those who suffer hunger in our nation. we have all joined in this pray and i, in the name of jesus christ, my lord and savior. amen and amen.
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thank you, mr. president. >> please be seated and enjoy lunch. >> pelley: and the rest of the luncheon is private so we will have our cameras turned away from the luncheon for the next 45 minutes or so as we look at some other aspects of inauguration day and martin luther king day. as president obama begins his second term we've done a new cbs news/"new york times" poll and it finds that just over half of americans-- 51%-- approve of the job that he's doing. 59% told us that they're feeling optimistic about the next four years. 58% said so at the start of the george w. bush second term. 66% of americans said they were feeling optimistic at the start
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of bill clinton's term. bob schieffer, if you look at the popular vote as it was taken in november, the president won reelection by about four percentage points. you look at that polling information, 51% approval rating, this country is deeply divided. >> schieffer: it was at election time, it remains so today, scott and the same issues they were talking about then they're still talking about. we do have a little news here on one of the things that was dividing washington and that is what are we going to do about raising the debt ceiling. the republicans decided earlier today that they will do that and they're going to introduce legislation to do it on wednesday. we got a few more details now. they will extend the debt ceiling to may 19, to go to may 19. but if congress does not get a budget done by april 15, i believe it is, then congress'
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salary will be held in abeyance. in other words, they won't get paid unless they can agree on a budget. so there's a lot of politics in this but i think this would be seen as a good sign that maybe they are going to at least get past this which would have been just a destructive and largely a waste of time when they should be getting on to other things and make the arguments about what we're going to spend the money on, not whether we pay the bills for things we've already purchased. so i think this is probably the best news we've heard today. >> pelley: the president met with the republican leadership at the white house today before he came up there. looks like there's a lot of effort going on by the president now to reach out to the republican leadership. >> schieffer: there's some heavy lifting ahead and this is at least an indication that maybe they're ready to start trying to deal with that rather than put it off while they debated what really is a meaningless
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argument. they have to do this and they all know they have to do it. and to try to make argue t argument about this was really not a very good idea, i think. >> pelley: that sound you hear outside is the sound of people saying "amen" to this idea of people not paying congressmen until they deliver a budget. >> schieffer: (laughs) i think that has some cache to it. >> pelley: john dickerson is our cbs news political director and john has been watching all of this from down there on the mall. going forward now, inauguration day is a very fine thing, but now they have to get things done. how do they do it? >> that's right. watching this slow progress of the day i'm mindful of a conversation i had with a white house advisor who is saying the inauguration is nice but it's coming in the middle of a busy time with the budget and also with these efforts on gun control the president has supported so it's still very much the business at hand is in everyone's head and there is a little warming. the president met with republican leaders but in this
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speech i was reminded last time, in 2009 president obama we had a lot of the same images of comedy and kind of universal love of the american experience. but a lot of republicans heard in his first inaugural address when obama listed all of -- president obama listed all of the troubles in america, they heard that as a kind of blaming of george bush, things that might to a non-partisan ear have seemed just kind of like facts of the case, they heard that as an attack on the previous president. here today when the president talks about collective action, well some conservatives hear big government. when he talks about investment, they hear taxes and so the way in which this speech is being heard and processd is as divided as it was before it started. >> pelley: john, thank you. byron pitts has been on the mall all morning long talking to folks that have come from all corners of the country to see the president's inauguration. here's byron now. byron? >> hi, scott. we're with a family from
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nebraska, omaha, nebraska, this is rex most. who's here with you? >> this is my wife diane, daughter ariel 16; son jonathan, 14; daughter madeline, 11; and daughter jasmine, 8. >> you drove from omaha, overnighted and took the train here, yes? >> it's correct. >> why? >> i think it's important that our children is not about "d" and "r" but about "a" and that's being an american and celebrating whatever government is in power. >> this is not your first inauguration. >> no but the first one we've brought the children along. we're going to take in the sights now, catch a little of the parade. >> did you sense a difference time than four years ago? >> i did. four years ago was a really neat experience to see people -- elderly african american women that never thought i think they
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would see the day crying in their seats and it was amazing to see. >> reporter: thank you, safe travels back to omaha. scott, back to you. >> pelley: byron, thank you. if you haven't brought your school age children to washington, do so, i highly recommend it. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue in just a moment. ,,
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>> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear -- today we continue a never-ending journey. america will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe. we must act knowing our work will be imperfect. our journey is not complete until all our children know that they are cared for. common purpose with passion and dedication but answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration continues. here again is scott pelley. >> pelley: you were just hearing the words from the president's second inaugural address delivered here in washington not long ago. if you are just joining us, president obama was sworn in for a second term about 90 minutes ago on the west front of the capital then he delivered his inaugural address, some of which you just heard. right now he's having lunch with members of congress in statuary
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hall. bob schieffer and i are joined here in washington by the governor of the state of massachusetts, dapt. governor since 2007. thank you for being with us. >> it's a pleasure to be with you, thank you for having me. the. >> pelley: what can president obama do for the states in a second administration? >> i think the smooth imlimit station of the affordable care act, so-called obamacare, which is off to a very good start and it's quite familiar to us in massachusetts because it's modeled on what we've had since 2006 but i think it's a big list for a lot of states and i think the partnership that h.h.s. has shown already with the states and the flexibility has been enormously important. beyond that, i think a growth agenda which is about investing in our future is enormously important to everything and every citizen. >> schieffer: governor, if you were to put a headline on the president's speech today, what would be the headline? what's the hook? >> i think i'd say "new resolve."
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i think what we'll see in the second term is a fresh resolve from this president. a dorplgs continue to try to pull us together. to ask people to turn to each other rather than on each other. to be very, very specific about the big lifts we have to do in gun safety, in immigration reform and, above all, in what we have to do to invest to grow our economy and grow opportunity. >> pelley: you know, i don't think gun safety would have been at the top of the president's agenda two months ago but after newtown, of course, it has become -- >> it's impossible to turn away from it now. it's impossible. >> pelley: which leads to the question: what do you expect to see from the president in terms of resolve on this as we get farther from the tragedy itself? >> well, i think you saw in the president's announcement, i think it was last week after the vice president's series of recommendations, what the contours of his proposal will be in terms of an assault weapons ban, a limitation on access to military style clips with multiple rounds in them. i think he's shown consistently
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a willingness to reach out to gun owners, sports men and women and hunters to make sure their interests are respected, consistent not just with the second amendment but consistent with their reasonable interests. but i think the idea of insisting that we do what we can as a federal and as state governments to protect our citizens is primary. >> schieffer: you're going to have a pretty important job coming up here shortly once john kerry is confirmed as secretary of state. every indication is that he will be. you're going to have to appoint somebody to replace him. >> i've heard that, (laughs) >> pelley: give us a clue. >> no clues today other than it will be somebody who is aligned with the president's ageneral the, will be a good partner to the president and the majority leader, which is important. i always remind our citizens back theme the main event is not the interim appointee, it's the election of a new senator in the
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special election. that's what we need to focus on. >> schieffer: i take it will be a democrat? >> it will be a democrat. the. >> pelley: governor patrick, thank you for joining us. we have in the capitol rotunda a very special guest today, valerie jarrett, senior advisor to the president and i day air is the person in washington who has known the president and first lady longest, being a long-time friend of both in chicago. ms. jarrett, great of you to be with us, thank you so much. >> it's a pleasure. it's a pleasure to be here. it's a terrific day for america. is. >> pelley: i have to believe that you were involved in the president's speech today. he must have run it by you. he runs nearly everything by you. >> (laughs) >> pelley: and i wonder. >> what do you any the president wanted us to take from that speech? one thing that was the take-home message? >> well, i think part of what he wanted to do today is to lay out the vision of our founding fathers as basic values of
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principals that guide us and so what i heard when he said we do not have to -- is he in the background? it feels like he's talking over me, i don't want to compete with the president, i'm listening to his speech not ours. >> pelley: well we are running a little bit of the speech there, ms. jarrett. >> okay, because i can hear him. >> pelley: you were talking, we were watching. >> all right, what i think, scott, is he wanted to say, look we don't have to be compelled to solve the century old debate over the role of government. what we have to do is find our common ground and act now. the people who elected the president, the people of our country expect us to still be able to do big things. creating jobs, tackling climate change, immigration reform. and thinking about those fundamental principles of equality and fairness and opportunity and the pursuit of life, liberty, and justice. so when you think about -- it is
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a message that should resonate with everyone and should touch the hearts of everyone. i found it very uplifting. the crowd responded and people from all over the country all walks of life coming to washington to participate in our democracy. so i think it's an opportunity for a new day. i know he is as energized as i have ever seen him and we'll celebrate today and tomorrow back to work. >> pelley: one of the messages, ms. jarrett, that was throughout the speech and the celebration today was that of gay rights. the president went out of his way in the speech to mention the stonewall riots of the 1960s, which really touched off the gay rights movement in this country. the poet that followed the president is a gay american. the minister who gave the benediction is a minister who performs same-sex marriages. i wonder, what is the president trying to tell us there? >> he's trying to say that equality means equality for
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everybody. he also talked about the civil rights movement. i think the idea behind this of s of basic equality and opportunity. our country is founded on those principles. when he talked about immigration today, again, it was opportunity and equality and he's going to fight for that just as he had his entire career he's going to do that for the next four years. his hope-- as we had the national day of service yesterday sds that ordinary americans get involved. get engaged with their country whether through volunteerism, whether through letting their voices be heard as we try to pursue legislation in washington it's a spirit of for engagement and that was a big part of what the president was saying today. we don't have to solve all of our problems but let's not put the short-term political interests ahead of the american people. >> schieffer: ms. jarrett, it's bob schieffer here. i wanted to ask you, because you
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do know the president so well. republicans i keep hearing say, well, they think the president doesn't like them. they say he doesn't like politics. that he doesn't like to get in there and me gauche@. you know him. is that a true characterization? >> i don't think so at all. i think it's an excuse for not wanting to come and work things out. as you said, i've known him for over 20 years. his reputation in the state senate in illinois was one as a junior senator who could go across the aisle and find common ground. he's always interested in find the common ground but he has to have a partner on the other side. so after today people say you know what? this is a great country, we have so much opportunity. yes we have challenges but, bob, those challenges are solveable if people come together. he is always going to reach across the aisle. but the other thing he's going to do and he said he's going to do it more aggressively in his second term is make sure the american people are engaged because their voices can compel congress to act as well.
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and this is a partnership with them. he's here representing them and he wants to make sure that they are involved in the process. >> pelley: valerie jarrett, senior advisor to the president and the person who probably know it is president and the first lady better than anyone. thank you so much for being with us today. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> pelley: thank you very much. the president and other dignitaries are inside statuary hall in the capitol. they're having their luncheon there. it is a private luncheon at this point and we will be rejoining the president, the first lady as they leave the capitol here in a while and head back down to the white house in a long parade down pennsylvania which is always one of the highlights of inauguration day. we listened to the president delivering his second inaugural address and as we did so i was thinking about president's past. fortunately for all of us we have doug brinkley here with us today, a noted u.s. presidential
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historian and professor of history at rice university. doug, how have other presidents used this moment? sglfrpt >> well, there are times when our country in graver crisis. we talked about abraham lincoln's second inaugural while the civil war was still going on. we talk about f.d.r.'s "we have nothing to fear." the great depression was on and unemployment with such staggeringly high numbers so this is a time where people have felt improvement since president obama came? we have to remember the crash of the economy stock market in such terrible shape. it's been a progressive incrementalism. but i have to say this speech is part of a progressive tradition of a theodore roosevelt speech in kansas where barack obama in 1911 when -- in 2011 he went and if you read the t.r. speech "the new nationalism" you'll find hit in the speech he gave today.
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you'll find it at f.d.r.'s second inaugural and in many of martin luther king's speeches. people talk about kennedy's inaugural about swords and switchbacks. it's a technique that worked brilliantly for john f. kennedy but i think the president had caught the aura of dr. king today quite well. >> pelley: and this day being inauguration day and martin luther king day all at the same time. doug, thanks very much. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue from washington in just a moment. [ male announcer ] nearly sixteen million people visit washington dc every year. some come to witness... some to be heard. we come to make an impact. to learn from leaders... and to lead others. to create... and create change. we are the george washington university... we come to make history.
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>> pelley: welcome back to cbs news live coverage of the second inauguration of president barack obama. the president and the entourage are all having lunch in statuary hall in the capitol behind me
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now but we will be seeing the procession and parade shortly as the president heads back down to washington. we have a very special guest on the set with us today, we have senator amy klobuchar of minnesota, the first woman senator from the state of minnesota and you've been the senator from minnesota since about 2007. >> that's correct. >> you know, one of the things that struck us here, senator, was the nature of the president's speech as a civil rights speech. and he went out of his way to mention seneca falls, the 19th century convention in seneca falls, new york, that was such a milestone in the women's rights movement and i wonder what resonance you saw with all of the things the president said in the speech about women and their rights. >> well, he also connected it to women's rights and equal pay and he was standing there with the congress which finally had 20 women senators, something that we haven't seen in our history. so i think it was important that he did that.
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but i also think that the speech was much more than just about the past. he connected that past to the future by talking about the next generation's issues. acknowledging that the divide in congress we're never going to set until his own words that is a century's old debate about the role of government but we have to act in our time and i think he used those examples of civil rights and women's rights about how leadiest in the past acted in their time and he put out the challenge on immigration reform and climate change and the number of things we need to work on to move forward and he was pragmatic. he talked about how this will be imperfect. he talked about how acknowledging the problems that we have in temple terms of getting together. maybe my favorite part was when the poet at the end talked about how we all look up at the same sky, at one sky. and i think that captured the essence of the president's speech. >>. >> schieffer: the thing that i found interesting about this
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speech, it seem swhad in the abstract to me. it didn't seem to connect. he talked about connecting the bill of rights to our reality of today but i kept waiting for that little hook to pull me in and make me tse "that's absolutely right." >> well, i think those words when he said "we must act in our time" he was appealing to a lot of people, especially immigrants people who have felt that we're not acting in their time. so i think it was an appeal to the next generation and i also think that he is -- has to be pragmatic in how he approaches congress. remember compared to the last speech where it was a much more somber analysis of where we were and this was, i think, much more of a call to action and maybe that we didn't have the one line you loved but it was a call to action to a lot of different people and a call for citizenship in this country. >> pelley: senator amy klobuchar of minnesota, thank you so much. >> thank you, you're going to be watching the fergus falls band and when they go by i expect you to say "that is the best band in
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the country." fergus falls, minnesota. >> pelley: fergus fall, minnesota, we will look for that. thank you, senator, always a champion for your state. cbs news live coverage of the second inauguration with president obama back in just a moment. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it.
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you can see that the crowd has largely left. the president and the rest of the dignitaries are having a private lunch in the capitol just now. the president delivered his speech immediately after taking the oath of office just before noon today and we have a brief excerpt from that speech that we'll play for you now. >> we, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. but we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. (cheers and applause) >> pelley: we people, the first three words of the pre-amble of the constitution, the president repeated it again and again throughout the speech, a speech
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about national unity and unity of person. norah o'donnell and john dickerson are down there on the national mall. they've been watching these events unfold all day. john, the president has quite a task ahead of im. how does he proceed politically? >> well, he proceeds the next big moment is the state of the union and that's where he will get even more detailed. as bob mentioned, this did have a state of the union like feel to it as he ticked off those agenda items. but he'll get more specific about agenda items, he'll put pressure on congress and the big thing, though, is while we think about his agenda for the future, he's still dealing with the business of the past and one of the things the president has to kind of unshackle himself from is these constant fights over the budget. they're going to try to get -- to protect those portions of the budget he thinks are important but get the budget process on some kind of track that so that washington is even in a position or has the opportunity to do something bigger on immigration or climate change or any other
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issue. >> pelley: ora o'donnell, the first day of the second term, how do you see things proceeding? >> i see this second inaugural address by president obama, too, as highlighting some of the scenes from the campaign. the campaign that he just won. and setting up in that soundbite that you just played, scott, where the president says "we reject the belief that you can't invest in our seniors and at the same time invest in the future." that's the idea that makes conservatives and republicans cringe which is that you can't continue to keep medicare and social security entitlements the same and we can't continue spending and investments and the president says i reject the idea you can't do both. that's at the heart of this philosophical divide between president obama and the republicans. how do you keep your commitment to seniors and invest in children? so that's really the fight that is really going to continue between both sides as this budget battle continues. yes, we're going to get an
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extension as bob reported on the debt ceiling maybe for a couple of months but notice how the republicans have placed a lot of contingencies on. that well unless you pass the budget by april we'll cut everybody's pay so we're going to have a series of cascading fiscal cliff-esque budget deadlines over the next several months and that really is the biggest threat to president obama's agenda. the things he talked about today whether it was on climate change immigration reform, gun safety. it's hard to do those things when you have as john pointed out leftovers from the first term. >> pelley: unity on monday, real politics on tuesday. norah and john, thank you very much. cbs news live coverage of the second inauguration of president obama will continue after these words.
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>> president obama's first inaugural in 2009 broke attendance records. in fact, it was the most well-attended event ever held in the nation's capital with estimates ranging as high as 1.9 million people. until then, lyndon johnson held the record crowd of 1.2 million in 1965. attendance for president obama's second inauguration is projected to be lower than his first. president george w. bush's second inaugural in 2005 drew up to 500,000 people.>> it may be sot before we get the official estimate of the crowd here, certainly not 1.8 million who were here in 2009, but estimates before the inauguration ranged from 600,000 to 800,000 but what we can report to you is that there were a lot of americans in the national mall today who were
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overjoyed to witness history, inauguration of any president is a remarkable moment in american history. and they were there today, many of them with their children to see these events. the president was inaugurated of course under the -- in the shadow i probably should say, the capitol dome. a fascinating thing about the dome of the capitol, this year is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the capitol dome. something that was mentioned today during the president's inauguration. here is a look at the dome as it was under construction during the civil war. now, when the civil war broke out so much cast iron was being used in building the dome and it was piled up all around the construction site, a decision was made to take the cast iron and use it to create barricades around the building instead of
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completing the dome. there was a lot of talk about stopping the work on the dome, but it was decided that completing the dome was such an important symbol of national unity that the work would continue even as we were fighting the civil war. president lincoln called it a sign that the union would go on. the dome is capped by what is known as the statue of freedom. this is also 150 years old this year. and the remarkable thing about this is that this statue was cast by philip reid who was, when he we began the work, a slave. but while the work was ongoing, he was freed by the district of columbia emancipation proclamation of 1862 which preceded the president's
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emancipation proclamation by about nine months. by the time the statue of freedom was completed, the man who was casting it, philip reid was free as well. a remarkable bit of american history as we looked on today, martin luther king day and the second inauguration of president barack obama. bob schieffer, we have so many of the house leadership, the senate leadership, the republicans and the democrats in the same room, i'm sure there are a lot of people at home who think they should just lock the doors until they come out with a budget. but what do you think is going on in that room? how much comedy can there be among these people who fight each every day. >> when of you have a formal ceremony they will enjoy themselves and enjoy the moment, this is a breathtaking moment in the history of the country.
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what's different, though, scott, than say when i first came to washington back in 1968, is in those days, for many years after that he was not just at these formal occasions that democrats and republicans came together, they also met together informally after work, their families new one another. they all lived here in washington. now they all go home every weekend, most of their family stay in washington, they don't really know one another. as they did back in those days. and i think washington is worse for it. because that's when you had these great across the aisle relationships, like lyndon johnson and everett dirkson. when lyndon johnson, joe calipano pointed out on "face the nation" he was one of the key aides for johnson when he passed the civil rights bill. when they signed that '64 civil rights bill, martin luther king
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was pivotal in doing that. you had all the members of congress, you know what johnson gave the first pen to? to everett dirkson the republican leader in the senate. because he said, he couldn't have done it without him. and he wanted to make sure that dirkson got full credit for that. you don't see that much any more. and that's the kind of thing that we've got to find just a little of that now if we are going to get anything done. starting off these people got to find out about each other and who they are and get to know one another again. because right now they really don't. they don't like to go to the same parties, they don't like to be seen with people from the other party, for fear that they will get in trouble with the folks back home. unless they can get past that, it's going to be very difficult to get anything done. >> maybe lunch will be a start. there will be a lot of new faces in this second term of president obama and bill plant, our long
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long-time without correspondent has preview of some of these changes that are coming up. >> scott, you know, there's nothing quite ascertain in washington as staff changes. when a president hits his second term. cabinet members and white house staff aides leave because of exhaustion or because there is a prospect of better jobs in the private sector. of course the highest profile depature from this cab set that of secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. four years of travel, 112 countries and nearly amyl i don't know miles she's ready to leave. nominated to replace her, massachusetts senator john kerry. the chairman of the foreign relations committee who is expected to be easily confirmed by his senate colleagues because he's always gotten along with them. now, we have defense sectly i don't know panetta retiring after decades of public service in congress, white house cabinet , the president has nominated senator, former seven for chuck hagel of nebraskaa vietnam combat veteran now to
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replace him. but hagel has been outspoken in the criticism of his party and he may have some difficulty with his confirmation. the other major depature from the cap net, secretary of the treasury tim geithner who over saw the bail out of the auto industry and recovery of the financial system. the president now nominated jack lew to the job, he was a behind the scenes guy, director of the office of management and budget, both in this administration and that of president clinton. that nomination is expected to go smoothly, but there is one high profile and sometimes controversial cabinet member who is staying on. that is attorney general eric holder. he's come under fire from republicans and some of the democrats in congress, some of the justice department policies, particularly a plan to send guns in to mexico. but holder wants to stay and the president clearly intends to allow him to do that. of course, there will somebody other cabinet and senior staff
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changes soon, but many of the same close aides on whom the president has relied for the last four years are going to stay with him, that's something for which the president has been criticized by democrats who wish that he had a wider range of voices. scott? >> bill, thank you very much. it's a tall order for the president replacing hillary clinton as secretary of state who has been widely regarded a very effective secretary of state. andly i don't know panetta as the defense sect, back when he was o&b director in the clinton administration managed to balance the federal budget, if you can imagine then later head of the cia he headed the efforts that killed osama bin laden. so obviously a very capable and long-time public servant now going off to his retirement in california. we have another moment from the president's speech earlier today, the president has
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signalled that he intends to make comprehensive immigration reform, one of his signature achievements in his second term. it's a tall order, other presidents before him have not been able to accomplish it but he keyed that up in his speech today. [ applause ] >> our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity. until bright young students and engineers are listed in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. >> john dickerson is on the national mall with us, our political director and john, george w. bush sought comprehensive immigration reform, was not able to get it through the congress, i wonder how the president intends to try. >> that's right, john mccain tried, too, then had to back away when he ran for the republican nomination. the president in talking to his aides, his advisors this morning
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thinks on immigration he has an opportunity here in part because of his electoral victory. republicans looked at that said, we can no longer continue as a party that has such dismal showing with minorities and young voters. we have to improve our position on the yes of immigration. former florida governor jeb bush said that during the last republican campaign during the last presidential campaign. so the president thinks that by that outside pressure will create a condition where republicans will be willing to work with him. so he's putting pressure from the outside but then saying and thinking according to this advisor, that he really can make common cause with some republicans in the senate and in particular to do something big on immigration. >> john, thank you. bill whitaker, our correspondent in los angeles has been watching today's events along with a group of latinos who voted for mr. obama. bill, what are they telling you? >> scott, i'm here at a major immigrant rights organization here in los angeles, people
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gathered here this morning to watch the inauguration. they say there has been a political sea change. 71% of latino voters voted for president obama. they say they were there for him when he seed needed them. now he expects them. i'm here with the director, who met twice with president obama on immigration issues. what is it that you want, that you expect of president obama this time? >> we want leadership. leadership from president obama that his wonderful rhetoric and his discourse match action. and so what we expect from him is that he is every ounce of his political capital to convince members of both parties, republicans and democrats to get an immigration reform law passed that he is able to sign. we are -- what we're fighting for is a passive citizenship, unity of our families and --
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added up to 1.5 million individuals. and millions of families impacted by that. we're going to work hard, we listened to him in terms of our activism. we're going to roll up our sleeves and help him do it but we want him top the leadership, the fortitude to get it over that finish line. and we were there for him. we have been there for him for a long time. what we want him to understand is that families are counting on him. there is a mandate from the voters, from latino voters, from asian voters they want their families together. they want an end to the exclusion and, yes, liberty and the fight for equality this time is a fight for immigration reform. >> scott? >> people who say they have the political power and the momentum and determination to see comprehensive immigration reform get through this time. >> bill, thank you very much. here in washington as the clouds
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lift and the sun breaks out across the front of the capitol, we will have more on the president's inauguration live from the nation's capital in just a moment. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> welcome back.
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too live cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration, a beautiful day breaking out on the national mall. temperature around 40 degrees. the sun out again after a cloudy morning, you can see the mall has largely cleared out there. but we're looking down the mall, this was the president's view as
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he delivered his inaugural address looking down the mall at the crowds with the washington monument and the lincoln memorial down there anchoring the end of the mall. scott pelley reporting live from washington. we want to take another look at that cbs poll that we showed you earlier today to give you some idea of where the country stands with regard to whether the folks in this country believe that we're headed in the right direction or not. this is the poll that we did just before the inauguration, the respondents across the country, 38% said the country was headed in the right direction. but 57% thought the country was still on the wrong track. when the president was inaugurated in 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. the unemployment rate today is
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7.8%. now, a lot has changed for the better, the stock market, for example, the dow jones industrial average and s&p500 have both hit five-year highs since then. so a lot of people are feeling better about the economy, but still many americans around ten billion americans are without work. when we asked people what the most important things they would like to see the president accomplish, 35% said improving the economy was the biggest thing. fixing the budget deficit, the federal budget was the most important to 13%. only 5% thought tax reform was important. and you may be looking at this poll and thinking, well, what happened to the war in afghanistan? well, there it is, it comes in at 4%, health care at 5% ending the war in afghanistan the most important priority for only 4% of the american people. but we should not ever forget
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that as we sit here today approximately 60,000 americans are fighting in afghanistan. the president is drawing those troops down but we have a long way to go yet in that war that is now more than ten years old. john dickerson our cbs news political director, he's down on the national mall, john, you see that 35% by far the largest majority of people in our poll think the president needs to be working on the economy. >> that's still the single most important issue for the president, much further down or much smaller percentage want them work on the deficit. really the deficit and getting the budget picture in order, ending these endless confrontations over the budget will do something the white house believes and republicans believe, too, to help with the economy. why? because a lot of businesses, they believe both again republicans and the white house are holding back, they're uncertain with these constant running up against these
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deadlines and this sense that really washington doesn't know what it's doing. so that if it's not doing something wrong today there is every expectation they will do something wrong tomorrow. that also shows up in consumer confidence numbers where. people looking at this fiscal cliff fight we just had looked that the they felt less confident about the economy. so getting the budget on some kind of path to normal business, getting the numbers to add up without these crisis moments that may be the best thing the president can do in the short term on this number one issue. >> norah o'donnell there, we didn't hear a great deal in the speech today about the economy from the president, he talked about other issues, he spent a lot of time on climate change, spent a lot of time on civil rights, the rights of women, the rights of gay americans. >> and one mention on deficit reduction. even though that will largely define, at least the first year if not further years in his first term. the other thing i just thought was interesting as we think
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about the president's second term and talk about his relations with congress, is that this is not only an unpopular congress as we have seen in our polls but one of the most inexperienced congresses, scott. just to note about 40% of the members of the house have served less than three years, according to the cook political report. that is the highest turnover we've seen since early 1990s when there was that big election in 1929, of course. you're dealing with a different type of body in the house. we know that the president has had a lot of trouble negotiating with house speaker john boehner. that is going to be one of the factors as we're looking at his second term he has this ambitious agenda at the same time has to deal with the economy and budget concerns that we talked about. >> nancy is our capitol hill correspondent she's been at the capital for us reporting all day. the next order of business, at
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least in terms of the house of representatives will be increasing the national debt limit. in other words, allowing the government to borrow more money so that it can pay the bills that it's already in cured. how do you see that rolling out over the next days and weeks. >> house republicans changed course pretty dramatically last week they were at their republican retreat, this is a tradition all members of the house republican conference went away from meetings for three days in williamsburg, virginia. at the end of that three-day meeting they came out said, we said we were going to fight raising the debt ceiling until we got dollar for dollar spending cuts now we're going to hold a vote that is going to be held wednesday to raise the debt ceiling temporarily. why would they do something like this, which might seem at first blush to be backing down. there were a couple of reasons, scott. first of all they looked at polling when they were out there at that retreat it looks like the polling that you were just talking about.
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it showed that americans by a pretty significant margin trust the president over house republicans when it comes to things like the deficit which is one of their signature issues. and spending and the economy. what republican leaders were trying to convey to some of their more junior members, perhaps who like the idea of really holding the white house's feet to the fire on issues like this, if we want to be seen as a governing party not just an opposition party that is constantly threatening to take the government in to a shutdown or default we are going to have to show that we are reasonable. and the fact is that they are going to hold this vote now and they still get another bite of the apple three months from now to try to push the administration to cut spending if they want to raise the debt limit again. >> nancy, we had chance to talk to condoleezza rice yesterday, the former u.s. secretary of state. she told us that when you are an
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official up there watching the president's inaugural address in his first address, you're taken with the hope and the grandeur of it all. when you're up there for second address you're looking at your watch thinking, i got to get back to work, we've got a lot we have to do. we're going to have lot more that we're going to do here in washington shortly. the president will be leaving that luncheon then the parade will be on. we'll have an opportunity to see the president and first family as they make their way back to the white house. more cbs news live coverage of the presidential inauguration from washington in a moment. >> t powerful office in the world is just 35 words. it went through extensive revisions before it became part of our constitution. george washington was among those who worked on the text, his notes can be seen in the national archives. maybe you can be there;
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cbs news live coverage of this day in history, the presidential inauguration. there we see the president at the end of the lunch with members of congress. this is a live picture, they're going to be toasts and exchangess of gifts as they wrap up this luncheon and then the president will review the troops it's a statuary hall in the capitol this is where the house of representatives used to meet many years ago. this is the senior senator of new york, charles humiditier who is the master of ceremonies for the inauguration. >> and i hope everyone has
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enjoyed the lunch, i think we really deserve a round of applause to our chef and our caterer. all the people who served the meals so expertly they have done a great job. so, it is now my honor to invite the speaker of the house, john boehner, to the podium to present the official flags. >> senator, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the old hall of the house. the people's representatives met in this chamber over five decades prior to the civil war. and it's a wonder they made it here that long, the acoustics were terrible. just couldn't hear anything. or in some spots you could hear everything that was being said
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in the room. to make -- it was a mess. and of course it was also at a time when our leaders weren't hearing each other all that well to begin with. many architectural improvements later we gather in the old hall to better hear one another and to renew the appeal to better angels. we do so amid the rituals and symbols of unity none more important than our flag. this year, old glory will mark a milestone of her own. it was the spring of 1813 that the new commander at fort mchenry ordered a flag to be thrown over the entrance to the baltimore harbor. it should be so large, he said, that the british will have no difficulty in seeing it from a disstance. for such an enormous banner, a mother and daughter team had to
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stitch together overlapping strips of wool to make the product whole. from many one. so a grand flag was flown not long after that an anthem to go with it. today whenever we put out the flag, whenever we hear it snapping in the wind, it gives us proof of the blessing that we call democracy. the symphony of service and faithfulness in which we will all play a part. so in the spirit of harmony, i'm proud to present the flags that flew over this battalion of democracy today to president barack obama and vice president joe biden. and to you, gentlemen, i say, congratulations and godspeed. [ applause ]
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>> i am now pleased to introduce my friend and colleague and partner in this inaugural endeavor, senator lamar alexander to the podium to present the official photographs. >> thanks, chuck, mr. president and mr. vice president and jill. empty and mrs. clinton, mr. chief justice. one former president who is not here today, we were sitting next to him, george h.w. bush and before he got up to speak he leaned over and said to barbara "what should i speak about?" and she said in a very loud whisper "about five minutes,
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george." i'll take about one minute. there will probably come a time, mr. president and mrs. obama and to the bidens when your children are trying to explain to their grandchildren that this day actually happened. if those great grandchildren don't believe it, we have pictures. and these pictures are for you and we wish you the best as you work for that common good, mr. cortez spoke about in the invocation and you eloquently talked about in your description of the american character today. [ applause ] >> okay, i would now like to introduce the distinguished majority leader of the house of
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representatives, eric cantor to present the lennox inaugural gift. >> good afternoon. on behalf of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, it's my honor to present the president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden with these beautiful crystal vases. the vases are the finest quality, full lead crystal from lenno, which china and crystal. the images of the united states capitol and the white house are hand cut and etched in to the crystal. the crystal vases on which the vase sits are enscribed with the name of the recipient and today's date. president obama, mrs. obama will receive the vase depicting the white house.
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vice president, dr. biden will receive vase depicting the united states capitol. the vases were designed by timothy carter and hand cut by master glass cutter peter o'rourke. at this time my wife diana and i invite president and mrs. obama and vice president and dr. obama looking at the beautiful vases. [ applause ]
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>> okay, i am now pleased to invite my colleague, house democratic leader nancy pelosi to the podium to present the memento, is that you all will receive as you leave stat ware hall.
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>> thank you very much. mr. chairman schumer and cochair, vice chair alexander for a wonderful, wonderful inauguration. mr. president, mr. president, mr. president, first lady, first lady, first lady -- dr. biden to all of our distinguished guests. so far you've heard of gifts to the president and the vice president, i'll tell you about the gift for you. freedom now stands on the dome of the capitol of the united states. may she stand there forever not only in form but in spirit. those were the words that were expressed 150 years ago by the commissioner of public buildings as the statue of freedom was placed atop the capitol during the presidency of lincoln.
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that expression of the spirit of freedom is what we want to you take with you today and is contained in this portfolio that you will receive from the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremony. along with a framed depiction of the capitol as it appeared at the start of the civil war. you heard it well described by chairman schumer during his remarks. today the statue of freedom and that spirit of freedom watches over the capitol as another president from illinois -- has taken the oath of office. despite the challenges of our time at home and abroad we heard in president's inaugural address a message of hope, a vision of peace, progress and prosperity and a promise of freedom for all. may god bless you, president obama, vice president biden and your family.
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congratulations with wishes for much success for you and to the success of our nation. may god bless you all, may god bless america. enjoy your day. [ applause ] >> mr. president and dr. biden and your whole wonderful family, i now rise to toast the vice president of the united states and my former colleague and my friend, joe biden. mr. vice president, you have been an extraordinary leader of this nation and a true partner to our president these past four years. you play many roles, advisor,
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advocate, implementer, persuader, strategist and most important of all, friend. we're confident this unique partnership between you and our great president will only grow stronger and more productive over the next four years. mr. vice president, on the surface we don't share a common ancestry, but on a deeper level we do share a common story. an american story. of achieving our dreams thanks to the sacrifice of our immigrant forebearers. as you embark on your well-deserved second term in the spirit of those who came before us and on behalf of all americans we offer you all our support and warmest wishes and we say to you --
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[speaking foreign languages] -- and cheers to our great vice president. >> mr. president and all the presidents assembled, i always enjoyed this lunch more than anything we did in the capital. the 36 years i served in the senate i had great honor of being included in this lunch, former presidents and vice presidents and because it really is a place where we get together in a way unlike any other time when we gather. it's always a new beginning every time we're in this room. and there's a sense of
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possibility and a sense of opportunity and a sense sometimes that's fleeting but a sense that maybe we can really begin to work together. chuck, we may come from different ancestors, but as all our colleagues know over the years we're cut from the same cloth. that we share that same common absolute conviction that was expressed by harry truman when he said, "america was not built on fear, america was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." that is what you've done throughout your career, that's what almost everyone in this room has done. at the end of the day it's an absolute confidence -- absolute confidence there's not a thing,
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a single thing this country can't do. i spent too much time with all of you not to know, you feel it with every fiber in your being that there's nothing, nothing this country is incapable of. i must say the president kids me occasionally, i know harry reed always calls me a senate man. i am proud to have been a senate man. i am proud to be president of the senate. but that pride is exceeded only by the fact i'm proud to be vice president of the united states serving as barack obama's vice president. one of the great privileges. [applause] one of the great privileges of my life, matter of fact if the president will forgive me as we were walking out as he said, savoring the moment. looking out at the crowd and all those americans assembled, i found myself surprised me even,
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turned to him saying "thank you" thanks, thanks for the chance. thanks for the chance to continue to serve. so folks, i raise my glass to a man who never, never, never operates out of fear only operates out of confidence and the guy who i plan on working with you, can't get rid of me, man, i'm still part of the senate. god bless you, chuck, you've done a great job. lamar, you have as well, to chuck schumer. good to see you, pal. >> the best part of these events are unscripted. i'd now like to introduce our senate majority leader, my good
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friend and really great man, harry reed to offer the official toast to the president. [ applause ] >> americans, today are wishing the president godspeed for the next four years. people all over the world are looking at us and our democracy and wishing the president the best in the years to come. i've had the good fortune of the last many years to work on a very close, personal basis with president obama. i have watched him in the most difficult challenges that a person could face. i've watched him do this with
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brilliance, with patience, with courage, wisdom and kindness. for which i have learned a great deal. so, mr. president, i toast and pray for you, your wonderful family and our great country. four more successful years, barack obama. >> cheers!
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>> michelle and the speaker of the house came to a meeting of the minds that i may be delaying the proceedings too much. and so i'm just going to be extraordinarily brief and say thank you. to my vice president, who has not only been an extraordinary partner but an extraordinary friend. and to dr. jill biden who has partnered with my wife with an extraordinary generosity on behalf of our men and women in uniform. to the entire cabinet that is here, i am grateful to you, some of you are staying and some of you are leaving but i know extraordinary sacrifices that you and my team have made to try
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to advance the cause of progress in this country and i'm always going to be grateful to you for that. to the speaker of the house and nancy pelosi, to democratic leader harry reid as well as republican leader, mitch mcconnell and to all the congressional leaders and all the members of congress who are here. i recognize that democracy is not always easy, i recognize there are profound differences in this room. but i just want to say thank you for your service and thank your families for their service, because regardless of our political persuasions and perspectives i know that all of us serve because we believe that we can make america for future generations. and i'm confident that we can act at this moment in a way that makes a difference for our children and our children's
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children. i know that former president carter, president clinton, they understand the irony of the presidential office, which is the longer you're there the more humble you become. and the more mindful you are that it is beyond your powers individually to move this great country. you can only do it because you have extraordinary partners. and a spirit of goodwill and most of all because of the strength and resilience and fundamental goodness of the american people. and so i would like to join all of you, not only in toasting the extraordinary work that chuck schumer and lamar alexander and others have done to create this special day for us, but i also want to thank each and everyone of you for not only your service
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in the past but hopefully your service in the future as well. and i would like to offer one last toast and that is to my extraordinary wife, michelle. there is controversy about the quality of the president, no controversy about the quality of our current first lady. [ applause ] thank you everybody. god bless you. and god bless america. >> and so ends the luncheon -- >> you can remain standing -- >> we heard the president's closing remarks about controversy about the president but no controversy about the first lady. we did a cbs news "new york times" poll over the last several days and asked about the president's approval rating. came in at 51%. but we also asked about the first lady's approval rating.
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it came in at 51%. >> thank you for the honor to offer the benediction, it's greatest honor in my life. let us pray as we prepare to go forth in peace, confident in america's bright future. in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. o, god, we give thanks to you and praise you on this day as the day of our president's inauguration for we, too, resolved once more to the spirit of the human race in humble supplication in the words of
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president washington. we praise your holy name for your gracious favor and divine blessing upon this united states of america, our president barack obama and vice president joseph biden as they command the second term of their sacred responsibilities in the highest office of our country. bless, preserve and keep them and their families safe and healthy, together with all who serve our nation, especially in congress, the judiciary and the armed forces here and everywhere who defend our pursuits of life, liberty and happiness.
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heavenly father, may we ever abide in this land of opportunity and freedom in perfect tranquility, faithful to our foundations and ever building and more prosperous just distant society for all our citizens. and may we always share our faith and hope for the future with the whole world through your divine and gracious love. amen. >> the benediction delivered by archbishop demitrios of the greek orthodox church in america. >> okay, please be seated for a moment.
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my pleasure, archbishop. thank you. well, i think everyone agree this has been a wonderful inaugural ceremony, a delicious lunch but it's now time to head to our next happy stop, the presidential parade. like many of you i've marched in hundreds. but as we optimistically step in to the next page of american history under the leadership of president obama, i have a feeling this one is going to be something truly special. so, thank you for being here, god bless you all. god bless america. [ applause ] >> and so concludes the lunch in ssatuary hall with the president, vice president, the first lady and dr. jill biden with members of congress and the senate. the members of the supreme
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court, military officers and members of the cabinet as well. still upcoming on inauguration day, the president will review the troops of the u.s. army military district of washington, that will happen on the east front of the capital and then shortly thereafter the president will lead the procession back down pennsylvania avenue from capitol to the white house and we will see the inaugural parade. we will watch all of that live right here on cbs. i'm joined here by bob schieffer our chief washington correspondent, anchor of "face the nation" as we watch the president and the first lady leaving the luncheon today, this was a lovely moment, a lot of toasts from people on opposite sides of the political scalea lot of handshaking, gift giving. i'm afraid that may not last the
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day. >> well, but in the meantime between time there will be a lot of hugs and kisses before they get to the car. this is always one of the nicer things that happens on inauguration day. it does bring everybody together and how long does this last, probably not very long but it will be back to business tomorrow. and again, i think we can't underestimate the fact that the republicans had decided to avoid, at least for now, at least for the next four months, immediate fight over whether or not to raise the debt limit. they say that they will introduce legislation tomorrow to increase the debt limit to last over the next four months so the government can pay its bills so it won't have to begin shutting down parts of the government. and while that is going on, they're asking the democrats to come up with a budget and if they don't come up with a budget by april 15th, then
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congressional pay stops. i think that will be applauded around the country. but it's going to be back to business and at least maybe they can focus on the things that matter and the things that are important rather than this debate over whether or not to raise the debt limit, because they have to do that. there's no way the government can operate unless they do that. so at least they put off one obstacle. i see -- they say in the world of blind, the one-eyed man is king. in this case i think this kind of news is probably good news in the current atmosphere in washington. >> pelley: bob, you see that as a give, a step toward compromise on the part of the republicans, is it too much to call it an olive branch on inauguration day? >> schieffer: well, a little bit of that. but i think more than anything else, it's just facing up to reality and understanding that this is not what a great power like the united states ought to be having a debate about.
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whether or not we have to pay our bills. and i think in that sense i think it's pretty good thing. >> pelley: you're looking at a live picture of the capitol rotunda, these people are assembled under the great dome of the capitol which will celebrate its 150th anniversary this year. that is a bust that you just saw of dr. martin luther king, junior. now, of course today is not only inauguration day, it is also martin luther king day. and so the president and the first lady and others are expected to walk to the bust of martin luther king and pay their respects there for a few moments before the president walks out of the capitol to review the troops. >> schieffer: the bust is much better likeness of martin luther king, junior, i would say that in the view of some who say statue on the mall, the massive
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statue sort of doesn't look like martin luther king, junior. it's big, this one you'd know who it was if you knew who martin luther king was. i think most people do. >> pelley: the king memorial on the mall is quite an imposing memorial. it's a striking thing to see. doug brinkley is one of this nation's foremost historians on presidential history and professor of history at rice university in houston. doug, the president reviewing the troops, this is a long -- has deep, deep history in the united states. >> not only was george washington a general, but look how many presidents have military service, almost all of them. really come up to the age of clinton and obama when you don't and you have people, not just generals like andrew jackson, yam henry harrison, but most of those presidents after the civil war had -- were generals in the
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civil war. then presidents like john f. kennedy made the pt-109 his calling card, colonel roosevelt and rough riders. the president's connection to the military is always very important. even get it down that if you weren't in the military somebody like barack obama practicing how to salute properly. ronald reagan said you had to know how to do that. >> schieffer: neither stand kate for major party had military service. >> that's right. this is the vietnam war generation, post vietnam in some ways. but keep in mind we're going to still have vietnam battles coming up with chuck hag,l could be very -- change some of the harmony on the debt. >> pelley: we see the president coming in under the great dome of the capitol to pay his respects to the bust of martin luther king, junior.
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>> pelley: the president with the speaker of the house, john boehner and house minority leader, nancy pelosi. the president will be leaving the capitol going out the east front to review u.s. army troops that have assembled outside for
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at devry.edu/knowhow. cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration. on what must be, weather-wise at least, one of the most beautiful days in the history of the nation's capital. an absolutely wonderful day for the inauguration of any president. as we wait for president obama
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positively the capital to review the troops, something we did with condoleezza rice. she served in both terms of george w. bush of course was his secretary of state in his second term. secretary rice is now a cbs news contributor we sat down with her in washington yesterday to talk about what president obama might expect in the four years ahead. >> as president obama embarks on his second administration, what are some of the things about a second term that aren't necessarily obvious? >> well, in a second term, first of all, you live with the consequences of the first time. that means generally, you are trying to solidify any janes made in the first term, and frankly, times to deal with mistake that is were made in the first term that need to be rectified. >> what's your best advice to
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a second term. toi. get started quickly. i've been asked many times what does it feel like to go to a second inauguration. the first inauguration is exciting and you can't believe i'm a part of history. in the second inauguration, i was thinking let's get this over and let me get back to work. i need to get back to the office, because you really don't have very much time. in the perspective of all the politics and the strum that we see on capitol hill, what does inauguration day mean? how is it different from every other political day that we have? >> inauguration day is in many ways a celebration of peaceful transfer of power. >> the people have spoken, and that president has now been reaffirmed. so it's about the democratic
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process, and it's the symbols of the democratic process. the symbol of the peaceful transfer of power. but for the united states, it has been a long time since we worried about the peaceful transfer of power, but we have to remember that it is actually a fragile moment. so many countries can't take that for granted. i love the inauguration for that moementd when peaceful power is transferred. >> condoleezza rice in washington. now in the broadcast booth overlooking the capital. we have two rising stars. hueliajulian and joaquin castro. they are brothers. one is the mayor of san antonio, and the other is a congressman. >> and you're the mayor? >> i'm the mayor. >> and you're joaquin. identedical twins and rising
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stars in the democratic party. the president talked about immigration today. what do you imagine, the mayor of san antonio, texas. what do you imagine the president can do on the issue of immigration. >> it was great to hear him speak about the dreams of americans that we all know and love and propel it forward. i would say there's a couple of things he can get done. first, after election night, we saw the republican party change its tune on immigration more than any issue, and that gives me hope. that means there's leeway to come up with a compromise. and a compromise means making sure the borders are secure as possible. ensure whg an employer hires someone that that employer can know for sure that person is here legally. and figuring out a way to find someone who is here illegally, and also figuring out a
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pathway to citizenship if the person has not commited a fell me. that kind of reform is truly in sight. >> joaquin, other than immigration what struck you about the ment's speech. >> i thought it was inspiration, and looked ahead and touched on the big issues of the day. not in a specific way which is beyond this kind of speech. but also it challenged some of the dogmas that are really dogged the congress and american government for the last several years. the president, for example spoke about absolutelyis absolu not giving into that. that was a challenge to congress, hey, work with me to do what's right for the american people. in that way, i think, that in a way transcended all of the bickering of the way. >> joaquin, you are a new
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member of congress from texas and new in town, as they say. how do you think the divide can be bridged between the two parties on difficult issues like immigration? >> well, there's a new things. it has to be built both on personal relationships with the president and with individual congress members themselves, and also the institutions and the way they proceed have to change. we know, for example, that over the last few years, the filibuster shaeb used more than any time in american history. there has to be some change there. and also, i believe that speaker boehner, if he wants to get bipartisan vote as he did on sandy relief, he has to be able to drop the hat, and it's personal changes and institutional changes. >> mr. mayor, you run one of the largest cities in the country, san antonio, texas. what can the president do to help? what do you need? >> the president can do what
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he has began during his first term. two great examples are to collaborate with agencies in his administration. making the transportation department work with the education department, work with the e.p.a., sustainable communicates, promised neighborhoods. to invest in brain power and education, and also lift up neighborhoods at the same time. and to his credit, he's been more collabrative with mayors, i think than we've seen in a long time. so i have a lot of hope for the second term. >> mayor castro of san antonio, texas, and brother joaquin castro in congress, very kind of you to spend a moment with us. >> great to be here. >> the president will be leaving the capitol shortly. he'll go out the east front where members of the u.s. military have been assembled so that we can symbolically
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review the troops. and we have leon panetta joining us now from inside the capitol. can you hear us, second panetta? >> i can, good to talk to you. >> nice to talk to you, mr. secretary. >> i don't think three weeks ago any americans would have thought that north africa would be at the top of the security concerns. we've heard three americans were killed in that hostage situation in algeria and seven americans were freed. i wonder what you think the president has to do over the next four years? >> as i've been saying this is all part of the war on terrorism.
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we've been going after them everywhere, and now in north africa. we have to make sure they have no place to wide. and so going after them in north africa and mali is a first step in making sure they do not establish any kind of base of operations from which to attack our country. we've got to be part of that effort, and we will be. >> and what is the united states government, the obama administration willing to do to be part of that effort of the french invasion of mali? >> well, you know, it's important to see an international effort. there are european countries that will be helping on training and other steps. and the united states is helping as well. we're helping on airlift and intelligence support. we'll look at other ways to try to provide assistance, as well as training. this has to be an international effort, because frankly, al-queda is an
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international threat. the best way to handle this now is to have all of these countries working together to do everything we can to stop al-queda. >> mr. secretary, you do not imagine u.s. fighting forces being involved in mali alongside the french at this point? >> no, i don't see troops on the ground. but i do see the kind of assistance that will help the french and ultimately help the african nation go into mali and really provide more permanent security there. >> what are some of the national security threats over the next four years and no one is talking about? >> the fact is we live in a dangerous world. we know we have the war on terrorism. we know the concerns about iran and north korea. i think middle east turmoil is going to trn to dra continue to
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tower attention and the potential for cyber attacks. we have in cyber technology, the potential to paralyze a country and take down a grid and financial systems. cyber attacks i think is the war front of the future, and we have to be prepared to deal with it. >> mr. secretary, you're going to be leaving the administration as planned. john kerry has been nameed to replace you as secretary of defense. i recall earlier in the broadcast -- i meant chuck hagel. john ker has been nominateed to k secretary of state. chuck hagel has been named to be secretary of defense. i mentioned you helped balance the federal budget, if you can imagine such a thing today, and as the head of cia you led the mission that killed osama bin laden.
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that's high quality talent for the federal government, and a lot of people are sorry to see you leaving. you'll be going back to california, and what is next for you? retirement? >> i'm not one to sit on a rocking chair. as you know, scott, via beautiful place in carmel valley that i'm looking forward to getting back to, but we have an institute per public policy they have with my wife who has been runing it for four years while i've been back in washington. and i hope to get back and work with her and promote public service as an inspiration for young people. >> mr. secretary, we see your boss moving through on his way out to review the troops. we wish you all of the best, and we will join our live picture with the president again. thank you, mr. secretary. >> thank you. >> this is the east side of. and the president will be stepping out to review the
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army of the military district of the district attorney of washington. >> the president a short time ago was playing his president before a bust of martin luther king jr. enshrined under the capitol dome. this being martin luther king day as well as inauguration day. this is the east front of the capital which faces the supreme court. and these are some of the troops that the president will
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review as commander in chief. the president is drawing down troop levels in afghanistan. about 60,000 americans are fighting in afghanistan as we speak. the president intends to make that many fewer as this year winds on. >> present arms! >> this is where they used to have the inaugural ceremonies until ronald reagan moveed it to the other side of the capitol. the president is escorted by the commander of the u.s. army
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military district of washington.
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>> and the president is proceeding to his limousine. in 1961 the parade for kennedy consisted of 30,000 troops and civilians and took more than three hours to pass the president's reviewing position. a much shorter review of the troops today. the general goes back into the presidential limousine for the trip down to washington. >> doug brinkley, our presidential historian, and professor of history at university is with us now. doug, when lincoln came to the capitol, there was such concern for his security that he was surrounded by troops. not only was he surrounded by troops, he wrote a letter
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telling a friend if you're coming to my inaugural, you better look out for bullets. there was a great deal of tension just across the river, and in virginia people were up in arms. the first battle of bull run which the confederates won is today's modern dulles airment. it was tense. i might also add for for barack obama, you had 30,000 security troops try to deal with the huge crowd, and today just getting here, you see all sorts of different troops. helping out with crowd control. >> when teddy roosevelt was here, the rough riders came to the inauguration. >> theodore roosevelt wore a ring with the whiskers of abraham lincoln in it. it was a good luck charm given to him by the secretary of state, lincoln's assistant and had taken some of the facial hairs.
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>> the rough riders which theodore roosevelt's group fought in cuba. he became governor roosevelt and president roosevelt, and all over america, ivy leaguers too. they came and formed basically the heart and soul of t.r.'s parade. it was 19 fo04 president that brought in bands and people from all over the country. >> you can't make this stuff up. >> true. >> we are watching the president's motorcade pull away from the capitol. >> bob, i'm not sure a lot of people know this, but the president does not come to the capitol very often in -- >> no, he doesn't. in george washington's time.
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they came up, and they didn't know what to do with it. they let him know in short order, you stay down at the white house. the capitol is two separate places n. washington terms, we weren't in washington then, but the president comes up to take part in the inaugural ceremony, and the state of the union message, and basically when congress wants to hear from them, they invite him to come up, otherwise, he didn't come there. in the state of the union in the beginning they just sent a written message. they didn't deliver it in person. >> but the president does not come to the congress in the normal course of business. >> no, absolutely not. >> just special occasions. >> but the president did invite the congressional leadership down to the white house this morning.
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>> this limousine is basically a tank disguised as a car. heaven knows how much it weighs or how perfectly it is. i've opened and closed the doors on a limousine like this, and it's like you're opening the doors to a vault they're so heavy. i'll never forget one time i was in president ford and he was on a campaign trip to connecticut, i think it was, and it was a mix up and they had to block off a street. somebody ran broadside into what was then the presidential limousine, and the car almost bounced off. it was unbelievable. and the poor people in the other car, had no idea what it was, and all these people with machine guns jumped out and surrounded them. they were absolutely terrified. it was a bunch of kids that were out doing stuff they
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shouldn't have been doing. these things are amazing pieces of machine. the limousine has a cadillac badge on the grill, but that is where the similarities to any other cadillac ends. it is not baseed on any cadillac model. it was designed from the ground up as a armored limousine for the united states, and owned and operated by the security service. they have several copies and it is driven by the secret service men and women specially train raed to do this work. >> there are not many of them like our ambassadors in foreign countries who have armored vehicles. you can't get them manufactured in the united states. so most of them are foreign made. these obviously are american. >> as the president prepares to proceed down the procession to the white house, our cbs
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he's just beginning the trip back to the white house, a long parade ahead. ken crawford, our cbs news correspondent who has been on the parade route all day long is expected the president to come by. jan, what do you see from there? >> hundreds and thousands of people. the people are gathered to see the president go by, many have been here since early this morning. we talked to a woman who got here at 9:00 a.m. from texas and salt here all day. you can't we the swearing in from where we are. there are no jumbo trons. they've been standing here just to get a fleeting glimpse of the president as he comes by, and of course, a woman we spoke with said just to see him for a moment in this parade would be worth it. the long trip would be worth it. there are police officers here
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from across cot ruenlt the coun the streets. we're at the intersection where the parade actually will become a parade. the moerd cade will go by, and then the parade, the floats, and the marching band from the president's high school in hawaii. there's 88,000 people in the parade, 200 animals. including floats just for this parade to represent the president's home state of hawaii, the first lady's home state of illinois. the state of pennsylvania and delaware for, of course, the vice president joe bide sxen his wife, and many floats representing things of significance for this moment focus on civil rights. there's a float for martin luther king in honor of this day, but at this moment, this crowd when they announced the parade was go to get underway, you could hear the cheers. the crowd has been shouting
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out all morning as they heard the swearing in, and the president's speech but again, scott, they could not see the ppt. this will be their first glimpse of the president. a lot of anticipation right now in the crowd. >> jan, thank you. we always watchsa the president makes his way back to the white house to see if the presidential limousine will stop, and whether the president will get out and greet the people who come to see him. and doug brinkley, our presidential historian. jimmy carter in 1976, he skipped the ride and walked the whole way. >> and both of nixon's there was disruption in the street. not just rock throwing, but in the 69 inauguration 89 people were arrested. jimmy carter said it's a new world, and vietnam is behind us, and started walking the
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street, and it set a precedent, because he walked the entire way down. there's a nightmare for secret service. in subsequent years, bill clinton and george bush they got out and walk a little bit. you never want them to know when you're going to do this. but the people want to see the president and the first lady walk a spiel. >> jimmy carter wanted to be the man of the people. throughout that campaign he always carried his own garment bag. that was always the photo you got of him carrying the garment bag over his shoulder. so a lot of that came from that. i was there. secret service went absolutely nuts about it. they didn't want to do it at all. but carter was determined about things like that. you're right. i was also there in '69 when president nixon got up there just as you turn on pennsylvania avenue and go
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around the treasury building, and his car was pelted with rocks. there was considerable disruption that year. >> well, one of the members of the parade today is our own sherylalt kinison wh atkinson w vehicle that's part of the parade ruelt what do you see? >> we're in position, as you said, just two vehicles ahead of the president of the united states. what a beautiful day, and beautiful weather. in fact, scott, if you've been able to get down to the capitol within the past hour, you could have perhaps gotten a front row view of what's going on here. there's a smaller crowd than in 2009, and much better weather. it's still a good crowd. they have to be happy with the way it turned out. it's perfect viewing weather, and perfec plenty of space to s
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president firsthand. >> cheryl, thank you very much. >> on on inauguration day, not a great number of republicans in the city. they decided by in large to leave the city, and because of the ill health of george h.w. bush, president george w. bush's son decided to stay with his father in texas. >> for the first time we had only democratic presidents watching on the stands there as the president delivered his inaugural address. but one of the republicans who is in town today is the senator of south dakota, john thune. and senator thune, we're grateful to you for joining us as you continue to watch the president make his way down pennsylvania avenue. >> nice to be with you. >> senator, the president had the congressional leadership to the white house this morning before the inaugural
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address. and some people were hopeful that that would indicate a pause between the two parties and everyone would start talking again. i on th wonder what you see as path to compromise as we deal with difficult issues, such as the budget and immigration? >> right. l you know, scott, i think that's a really important first step forward. inaugurals are always signs of new beginnings, fresh starts, if you will, and i hope this presents an opportunity for us. the president, if he will reach out to republicans on capitol hill, and to democrats, for that matter, i think we can do some good things together. lord knows we have challenges ahead of us. they will require presidential leadership. we need him involved in discussion and engaged. and i will provide that leadership. >> bob schieffer here. what about the idea that republicans have decided, i think, tomorrow, to introduce
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legislation and raise the debt limit. that would seem the most hopeful sign so far, to get that out of the way and get down to serious business. tell us about that. >> i think, bob, the house republicans recognize the political reality we have to deal with right now. we've got a president and a demcalt controlled senate. the republicans in the house, and as much as they'd like to move their agenda, are going to have to work with the president and democrats who have a different point of view. they decided to increase the debt limit temporarily, and put the focus squarely on the budget. we know we can't solve the country's fiscal problems absent entitlement programs. it would know nice to do something about tax reform. that's another element of the solution for the challenges we face. but that's intermented as -- sgerpted that republicans want
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to work with him and focus on passingoy budget in the senate, something we haven't done in almost four years to try and get the process moving forward in a way thal get us to a solution. >> what did you think of the president's speech today? do you think it would be helpful? what will republicans take away from that? >> well, bob, i thought the president, as in usual speeches, it was a 30,000 foot speech with broad sproeks. i think it's really important that we follow through, and talked about the need for bipartisan and talked about some of the big issues we face, and it's important that the actions follow the rhetoric, and i think the republicans are capitol hill are ready, willing and able to work with the president, but it's going to require leadership on his part, and that's something we feel has been missing for a couple of years, particularly on what we perceive the biggest challenge in the country.
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>> john thune, thank you for being with us? >> thank you. >> enjoy the parade. >> a glorious day. not a cloud in the sky. the sun is beautiful, one of the american artist who is has watched all of this with interest is winston marsalis, a winner of pulitzer prize, and composer and educator, and fortunately for us, he is our cultural correspondent for cbs news. marsalis once said the president obama's message of inclusion is the same as jazz. i asked him how that message applys to the political climate here in washington. >> our music is baseed on
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mutual respect. at the center of music is swing. and that's our integrity. we improvise. about en% improvise, it's swing, and the bltives are not always the same as yours. >> not a lot of swinging going on in capitol hill, not a lot of harmony. >> they're setting a bad tone. and you have to remember, the world is looking at us. we can't get a budget, and go overtime, and the leaders are cursing each other out. we're trying to export democracy and advise our way of life and talk about the advantages of it. here we are the standard bearers of it in the world, and we can't come to an understanding of the budget, grandstanding and marketeering. it's embarrassing. >> there's a lot you can learn from jazz. >> there's a lot you can learn from swing and jazz.
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>> winston marsalis, the great jazz composer, musician, band leader, and winner of the pulitzer prize. marsalis playedalt the after party at the white nous in 2009, played after all the inaugural balls and celebration when the president and the first lady returned to the white house. winston marsalis played for them at that time. watching live kofrjt now of the inaugural parade. under the constitution of the united states, inauguration day used to be in march. in 1933, after the passage of the 20th amendment that changed to january 20th. but either time in washington, d.c. can be a time of miserable weather. in 1985, when ronald reagan was inaugurated it was 7°. they had to move most of the
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festivities inside. there were terrible snowstorms for the inauguration of president kennedy in '61, and president taft as well. today we have 46° and clear skies. jan crawford is on the parade route now. jan, what do you see? >> well, scott, the men preside is just about to arrive, and the crowd erupted into cheers. many of the people have been here since the early morning hours, and it will be their only glimpse today of the newly sworn in president. there's enormous excitement here. the crowd is almost leaning forward 20 people deep to try to see the president as he drives by in hi -- motor kied. people are waving. they've been here since the early morning hours to see the president. >> it's an impressive zult.
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we were talking about bad weather during inaugurations, and you talked about president grant. >> it was so cold. they were having a big dance, and they put up a tent. and nobody was take their coat off. they were all dancing in their coats, and they had a hundred cages with canaries around the tent to sort of add to the decorations. what happens was not pretty. the canaries froze. no canaries survive thad inauguration. >> this will go down in history in terms of the weather as one of the prettiest inaugurations in history. cheryl atkinson is there. what do you see? >> it's a big crowd. we're passing pennsylvania avenue. the president traveled all the way down to the white house where he will get out of the limousine and go into the
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president's reviewing stand and watch with friends, family, and donors as the rest of the parade comes by. it's interesting, as you've been talking that the president always gets out, with such a nice day and good weather, nothing to stop him from getting out twice and perhaps having a nice long walk and pleasing the crowd. we're waiting for that to happen. what does it take to be someone to sit with the president when you arrive at the white house. close friends, family, associates, and also donors were offered packages, including pickets to the front row -- tickets to the front row seats. some of the packages were a million dollars. there was controversy. unlike 2009, president obama lifted limits on contributions so donors could fund this privately funded party, and could give as much as they wanted to. no cap on that. and also for the first time, at least for president obama, corporate money is being
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accepted. so those are some of the people who will fill the seats that you see in the presidential reviewing stands when we arrive there. >> cheryl, so few people get a chance to be in this parade. look around for me, and tell me, when you see the folks on the side of the road what do you see? what are they shoulting? how does it feel? >> they're happy to see the press trucks, because we're just ahead of the president, and just to catch a glimpse of the parade they're shouting hey, and waving happy faces. much like 2009, and anticipating getting a personal glimpse two limousines back from where we are, a peek inside the dark window and see the president of the united states and mrs. obama waving back at them. again, everybody seems happy out here. the weather couldn't be better. they have fronts row seats,
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perfect weather, and whoever is lucky enough to see the president when we gets out of the limousine for that close-up firsthand look, they're going to be thrilled. >> and traveling at walking speed, to looks like? >> that's right. >> cheryl, thank you very much. the president is driving past the many museums of the smithsonian institution, the national gallery. the big reviewing stands set up all along the parade route. folks waiting all day guarding their positions and waiting all dale for an opportunity to catch this. >> and not all of them were able to get to the capitol to see the president sworn in or deliver his inaugural address. this is their opportunity to see the president and the first lady go by. members of the military saluting the first commander in chief as he rolls along.
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>> you know what's really nice about this, scott, is how the crowds are. they're obviously enthus yafltic -- enthusiastic, and much the same as barack obama's first inauguration in 2009 when you had a 1.8 million people. and i don't have the exact
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figures, but i believe fewer than a dozen people arrested. think of a city a million and a half people, and you could go all day with only a handful of people -- and none of those were any kind of serious incidents. and again, you're not seeing a lot of pushing and shoving and that kind of thing like at a sporting event sometimes. these people are happy. they're happy to be here, and they're really enjoying themselves. it speaks well of the country, i think. >> the tapestry of america, people have come from every corner of the country to be here today.
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>> douglas brinkley is also with us today. douglas, not all presidents -- or i should say at least one president did not survive after his trip from the capitol back to the white house. >> it always gets talked about. william henry harrison, only tippy canoe general who did the longest inaugural in u.s. history. didn't wear a coat, and caught pneumonia and died a month later. i wanted to answer to what bob said about the crowd. it's amazing how beloved barack obama is by the african-american community. he's the first black president, and getting 90% of the black vote in 2012, but people from all african-american communities support him so enthusiastically. it's noticeable walking around town.
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>> bob schieffer what would you say was your most memorable inauguration. >> i came in 1964, and in those days i was a reporter for the fort worth telegram. i think the president is going to get out of the car. the secret service gets out of the passenger seat, and they're opening up the ment's limousine now. >> just the fact it was my first one, i think that's the one i will always remember. and everything looked so bland. larger than life. the buildings seemed larger. and here they are. whether you're a democrat or a republican, they're a handsome couple. >> they are. the president is and the first lady now on foot. >> they're also very tall.
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[applause] >> to watch this scene unhold --
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[applause] >> the president begins his second term. there will be a lot of things he will be doing for the last time, and this is one of them. >> earlier today we saw the president stop and take in the
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view from the mall after he delivered his speech. his entourage was moving, and he stood there and soaked it all in. and now clearly enjoying this moment as well. realizing that these will be the last -- these will be the last moments that he will be able to enjoy an inauguration day. cheryl atkinson is on the parade route 500 feet away from the president. what do you see? >> we're very close to the president of the united states and the first lady. they'll come outalt 10th street and pennsylvania where there's a big crowd, and dlielt the people watching. people reaching out with their hands and waving american flags, screaming. some of them are running alongside in the background so
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that they can run along with the limousine procession, and a lot of cameras, taking pictures of them. and they saunlter down the mitsd of the road. perfect day to come outside and do the walk, unlike 2009 when it was so cold. it was a very quick -- but this time very nice warm walk. we'll see how long they stay out. the people couldn't be happier. they're very excited, reaching out towards the president and just yelling nothing in particular, just kind of screaming as we goes by with the first lady. >> cheryl, thank you.
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>> you get a sense of all the security around the president when you see this shot. >> there's a break, an opening when you look at from the crowd's viewpoint, and they go by and you see the president and the first lady unobstructed.
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did an interview with the president not long ago before the election, and being president is not all fun and games and a bed of roses. he talked about you can't drive anywhere on your own, i can't take a walk anymore. and he was just talking about all the trappings of the office. as you were saying, bob, when the first couple goes out for a walk, well, there are a few people can them. but having said all of that, from the look on his face, you don't think he would trade this for anything in the world. walking in front of the old u.s. post office building in washington. >> and getting fairly close to the white house now. who knows, maybe he'll take
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the whole full trip on foot from here to the white house. [applause] >> margaret brennan is along the parade ruelt. they must be getting close to your location. >> they are, indeed, scott. the announcer just aert welled that the president is about to arrive. but the parade goers have no idea the ment is on foot. so many of them showed up at 8:00 a.m. right when the security gates opened hoping to get a front row seat to get close to the president. you can hear the roars starting. and i'm waiting to hear the eruption if the president stays on foot. he's been coming down in a slow roll of the car, and as you know, it stretches a mile and a half or so to the white house. and tell be being to see how the crowd reacts when the
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president does get here. this parade itself. there are about 88,000 -- of course, this is only the second inauguration that has happened to fall on this holiday of martin luther king day. a lot of people have the day off and came out to celebrate. in so many ways, it's one of those moments in time where history sort of rhymes here. president barack obama is the first african-american elected to be president, and now re-elected. we're standing in freedom plaza where martin luther king right across the country gave his i have a dream speech. >> we'll see after the president passes, a number of references to civil rights and martin luther king and many of the floats that will be rolling down pennsylvania right after the president and the first lady pass us by. we have been told that on the martin luther king float, there's going to be that famous float from him that says the ark of the normal
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universe is long, and bends towards jflt. and president obama made many references to martin luther king. and continues in current form. the president just about to arrive at freedom plaza, scott. >> margaret, thank you. the president back in the limousine, as you saw with the first lady. listen to this. (crowd chanting four more years) >> the president walked about three blocks hand in hand with the first lady, and blue the crowd a kiss before he got back inside the limousine. the president wasn't able to shake any hands or personally
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greet anyone in the crowd because, of course, there are barricades and two or three ranks of police officers and military service members standing along the fraid route there. [applause] >> stay with us. we will have live coverage of the president's return to the white house and more on the inauguration parade as cbs news coverage of the inauguration of president barack obama continues in just inauguration of president barack obama continues in just a moment. inauguration of president barack obama continues in just a go, go, go, go! bye sweetie. honey what are you doing? we gotta go! it's dress-like-a-president day, i'm supposed to be martin van buren.
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back with live coverage of president barack obama. this is a picture of the crowd watching the president drive by in his moer motorcade from t tocapitol back to the white house. they're nearly back to the white house. it's an amazing day in washington. it's 47° and almost no wind. it is a brilliant clear sky. you couldn't ask for better weather. jerry sipriano said president reagan had the best and the worst weather. i'll tell you about that in a moment.
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>> jerry sipriano, our senior news editor and a bit of amateur historian was telling us that ronald reagan in 1977 had such cold weather that by the time he was inaugurated a second time zoo-1985, i'm corrected. by the time ronald reagan was inaugurated a second time it was 55°. and so ronald reagan goes down in history as having the coldest inauguration and the warmest inauguration in american history, at least as far as the records go back. but about 46°, 47 in washington right now, and a beautiful dale for this trip back to the white house.

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